单词 | baa |
释义 | baan. The cry of a sheep or lamb; a bleat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habits or actions > sound made by bleatinga1398 blayinga1586 baa1589 bleat1600 maaing1826 baaing1832 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 37 They haue no propertie of sheepe but bea. c1600 Ever-Green (1761) II. 58 With mony a Bae and Bleit. 1870 Daily News 11 Oct. 5/5 We civic sheep have set up so loud a ba-ba that we have terrified the wolves. 1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 264 The snow-white lamb..fills the solitude with tremulous baa. Compounds C1. baa-waymenting adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > making sound bleatingc1380 baa-waymentinga1586 baa-wailing?1614 balant1702 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk5 Still for thy Dam with bea-waymenting crie. baa-wailing adv. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > making sound bleatingc1380 baa-waymentinga1586 baa-wailing?1614 balant1702 ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: With flaming Hornes in Poems There bea-wailing strayes A harmelesse Lambe. C2. baa-ling n. (also baah-ling) a little lamb. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb lambc725 yean1408 lambkin1579 baa-lamb1599 eanling1600 lambling1605 yeanlinga1644 sheepling1654 wool-bird1825 baa-ling1853 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. i. 2 Silly little knock-kneed baah-ling. baa-lamb n. nursery equivalent of ‘lamb’; also, a toy lamb. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > soft toy > [noun] > specific baa-lamb1599 bear1905 teddy bear1906 teddy1907 shmoo1948 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb lambc725 yean1408 lambkin1579 baa-lamb1599 eanling1600 lambling1605 yeanlinga1644 sheepling1654 wool-bird1825 baa-ling1853 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 3 Then hairy cloathes, and wooll from Baa-lambs tore. 1871 D. M. Mulock Little Sunshine's Holiday ii. 31 Little Sunshine was greatly charmed with the ‘baa-lambs’. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xxxix. 174 The baby..was..caressing..a woolly baa-lamb. 1906 (title) The baa lamb's ABC. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). baav. To bleat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound bleatOE blea1568 baa1593 whicker1808 maa1827 1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia i. f. 49 Like a lambe whose dam away is fet,..He treble beas for helpe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 11 He's a Lambe indeed, that baes like a Beare. View more context for this quotation 1765 C. Smart Phædrus (Bohn) iii. xiv. 506 You little fool, why, how you baa! This goat is not your own mamma. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile vi. 138 Our sacrificial sheep..comes baaing in the rear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1586v.1593 |
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