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单词 mawp
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mawpn.

Brit. /mɔːp/, U.S. /mɔp/, /mɑp/
Forms: 1600s malpe, 1600s maulpp, 1600s maupe; English regional 1800s– maulp (Lancashire), 1800s– maup (Lancashire), 1800s– mawp (Lancashire), 1800s– muope (Dorset), 1800s– mwope (Dorset).
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: nope n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably a variant of nope n.1 with change of initial consonant; see also alp n.2 and hoop n.2 2, and also the form pope recorded from Dorset in 19th cent.
English regional.
The bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Pyrrhula (bullfinch)
alpa1425
owpe?a1513
bullfinch1570
awbe1576
nope1611
mawp1654
woop1668
hoop1669
pope1763
tawny1847
thick-bill1847
leaf-finch1869
plum bird1879
plum-budder1879
1654 Goostrey Churchwardens' Accts. in J. P. Earwaker Hist. Anc. Parish Sandbach (1890) 248 For killing a dozen of maupes.
1670 Wilmslow Churchwardens' Accts. in J. P. Earwaker E. Cheshire (1877) I. 115 Paid for 16 maupe heads 6d.
1673 Rostherne Churchwardens' Accts. in J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial. (1875) 190 Payd for maulpp taken 38 in Rostherne [etc.]..; for every malpe 1d.
1848 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (new ed.) Gloss. 363 Muope. The bullfinch.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 66 Bullfinch..Mwope (Dorset). Mawp (Lancashire).
1984 W. B. Lockwood Oxf. Bk. Brit. Bird Names 102/2 Mawp, a Lancs. name for the Bullfinch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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