单词 | kling-kling |
释义 | kling-klingn. A Jamaican name for a grackle, Quiscalus niger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Quiscalus > other types of crow-blackbird1778 kling-kling1847 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 219 It is to the first of these notes that the bird before us owes his local names of Tinkling, Tintin, Clinkling. 1949 Caribbean Q. 1 iv. 42 What to Miss Bottome is a tropical bird, is to Vic Reid a pechary or a klinkling. 1955 R. G. Taylor Introd. Birds Jamaica 11 Kling-kling, a bird of medium size with shining black plumage, pointed beak, a pale yellow eye and long boat-shaped tail. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 217 Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger. Local names: Tinkling; Cling-cling; Ting-ting (Jamaica). 1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 75 Two large black birds..whirled in... She said, ‘We call them kling-klings but learned folk call them Jamaican grackles.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1847 |
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