mongoosen.

Brit.

/ˈmɒŋɡuːs/,

/ˈmʌŋɡuːs/, U.S.

/ˈmɑŋˌɡus/

Inflections: Plural mongooses, (irregular) mongeese, (irregular) mongoose, (irregular) mongooze.

Forms:

α. 1600s mounggoutia, 1600s– mongoose, 1700s mongoes, 1700s mungose, 1700s–1800s mongoos, 1700s–1800s mongooz (in sense 2), 1700s–1800s mongoz, 1700s–1800s mungos, 1700s– mungoos, 1800s mongous (in sense 2), 1800s moongus, 1800s mungous, 1800s– mungoose.

β. 1700s–1800s mangoost, 1700s–1800s mangoust, 1800s mangouste.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Partly a borrowing from Marathi. Etymons: Portuguese mangus; Marathi maṅgūs.

Etymology: < (i) Portuguese mangus (1716; 1685 in form mongús) and its etymon (ii) Marathi maṅgūs, muṅgūs < Telugu muṅgisa , Kannada muṅgisi . The β. forms are after French mangouste (1703, with insertion of -t- through hypercorrection; 1696 in form mangouze ). Compare mungo n.¹With the form mounggoutia in quot. 1681 at sense 1α. compare Sinhala mugatiya the brown mongoose, Herpestes fucus. Sense 2 is possibly a distinct word; but no source has been found for it in Malagasy or any other language of the Indian Ocean, and it may be a transferred use of the name of Herpestes ichneumon, the Egyptian mongoose. In earlier use in this sense the prevailing forms are mongous and mongooz ; compare French mongous (see quot. 1758 at sense 2). According to N.E.D. (1907), ‘the proper plural form is mongooses , but mongoose , mongeese , and other variants are occasionally used’ (in form mongeese after goose n.). Mongooses is the usual modern plural form, but compare e.g.:1971 F. Collymore in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 81 The mongoose..is a troublesome sort of creature... For nobody seems to know with any degree of certainty which to choose of his plural forms—mongooses, mongeese, mongoose or mongooze. The evidence of contemporary dictionaries suggests that the most usual British pronunciation in the 19th cent. had /ʌ/ in the first syllable. Editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. give this as the first pronunciation until the mid 20th cent. (later editions give it as an alternative). Earlier editions of Jones give priority to forms with the stress on the second syllable, though other evidence for this is lacking. Some 19th-cent. dictionaries also enter the word under the spelling mungoose (e.g. the Imperial Dict. (1881)) or mungoos (e.g. the Encyclopædic Dict. (1885)). N.E.D. (1907) enters the word under Mongoose, mungoose, with corresponding pronunciations. Cent. Dict. (1890) enters it under the double form mongoos, mungoos, with corresponding pronunciations, but other U.S. dictionaries of the late 19th cent. prioritize the o-spelling and the corresponding pronunciation.

1. Any of numerous small carnivorous mammals constituting the family Herpestidae (frequently included with the civets and genets in the family Viverridae), which are native to Africa and southern Asia, have a long body and tail, short legs, and a grizzled or banded coat, and are noted for their skill in killing venomous snakes. Cf. meerkat n., suricate n.The Egyptian mongoose or ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon, was sacred to the ancient Egyptians, and is noted for its destruction of crocodile eggs.water mongoose: see water n. Compounds 8.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose)

ichneumon1572

rat of Inde1601

Pharaoh's rat1605

Indian mouse1607

Pharaoh's mouse1607

Indian rat1613

mongoose1673

mungo1752

vansire1774

yellow mongoose1917

α.

1673 G. Aungier Let. 29 Sept. in C. Fawcett Eng. Factories in India (1936) I. 83 [My house is] miserably afflicted with rats so great that a mongoose or our cats will not meddle with them.

1681 R. Knox Ceylon III. xi. 233 The mounggoutia, a kind of ferret. This creature, when the noya and he meets, always fight.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 116 A Mongoose is a-kin to a Ferret.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 59 A species of East-India animal, called a Mungoes, which bears a natural antipathy to rats.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 3/2 The viverra ichneumon, which, by the Europeans, is called mongoos.

1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 204 A cat withstood the poison better than any other animal, excepting the Mungoose (Ichneumon).

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 629/1 The Indian ichneumon or mungoos..is considerably smaller than the Egyptian form.

1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 124 It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose.

1896 R. Lydekker Hand-bk. Carnivora 244 (heading) The mungooses. Genus Herpestes.

1927 L. Gask All about Animals 158 Mongooses..are well known in Africa and in the warmer parts of Asia.

1927 G. Jennison Nat. Hist.: Animals 82 Mongoose saved the West Indian sugar plantations from total destruction by rats.

1960 G. Durrell Zoo in my Luggage 109 Young pigmy mongooses flatly refuse to feed from bottle or from fountain pen filler.

1987 M. Das Cyclones xx. 108 A hurrying mongoose stopped near them and stood erect on its hind legs staring at Reena.

β. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 304 The Weasil kind..comprehends..the Ferrit, the Mangoust [etc.].1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) II. 246 The viverra ichneumon, or the mangoust.1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 93 The Urva of Mr. Hodgson appears also to be a Mangouste, with incomplete orbits.

2. A nectar-feeding lemur, Eulemur mongoz, of north-eastern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Now only as mongoose lemur.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > genus Lemur (lemur) > miscellaneous types of

macauco1751

mongoose1758

Madagascar cat1900

1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 12 The Mongooz. [Fr. parallel text Le Mongous.] These animals are brought from Madagascar, and many of the smaller islands between that and the East Indies; they seem to be one remove from the direct Monkey.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 240 A second of this kind [sc. the Maki], which is also a native of Madagascar, is the Mongooz.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 785/2 The mongooz, or woolly maucauco, inhabits Madagascar.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 60 L. mongoz..The Mongooz... The Mongous pass a considerable portion of the day in sleep.

1868 Museum Nat. Hist. I. 43 The Mongous (Lemur Mongoz)..is a little larger than the ring-tailed lemur.

1884 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 228 The Mongoose Lemur, or Woolly Macaco.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iv. 61 The mongoose lemur, the black lemur, and the red-fronted lemur take to diurnal habits very easily.

1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor i. 15 The woolly-coated orange-eyed mongoose lemurs bound from branch to branch, wagging their long thick tails like dogs.

1996 Zoo Biol. 15 1 Across the past 20 years, captive reproduction has declined steeply in mongoose lemurs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mongoose
释义	mongoosen. Brit. /ˈmɒŋɡuːs/, /ˈmʌŋɡuːs/, U.S. /ˈmɑŋˌɡus/ Inflections: Plural mongooses, (irregular) mongeese, (irregular) mongoose, (irregular) mongooze. Forms: α. 1600s mounggoutia, 1600s– mongoose, 1700s mongoes, 1700s mungose, 1700s–1800s mongoos, 1700s–1800s mongooz (in sense 2), 1700s–1800s mongoz, 1700s–1800s mungos, 1700s– mungoos, 1800s mongous (in sense 2), 1800s moongus, 1800s mungous, 1800s– mungoose. β. 1700s–1800s mangoost, 1700s–1800s mangoust, 1800s mangouste. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Partly a borrowing from Marathi. Etymons: Portuguese mangus; Marathi maṅgūs. Etymology: < (i) Portuguese mangus (1716; 1685 in form mongús) and its etymon (ii) Marathi maṅgūs, muṅgūs < Telugu muṅgisa , Kannada muṅgisi . The β. forms are after French mangouste (1703, with insertion of -t- through hypercorrection; 1696 in form mangouze ). Compare mungo n.¹With the form mounggoutia in quot. 1681 at sense 1α. compare Sinhala mugatiya the brown mongoose, Herpestes fucus. Sense 2 is possibly a distinct word; but no source has been found for it in Malagasy or any other language of the Indian Ocean, and it may be a transferred use of the name of Herpestes ichneumon, the Egyptian mongoose. In earlier use in this sense the prevailing forms are mongous and mongooz ; compare French mongous (see quot. 1758 at sense 2). According to N.E.D. (1907), ‘the proper plural form is mongooses , but mongoose , mongeese , and other variants are occasionally used’ (in form mongeese after goose n.). Mongooses is the usual modern plural form, but compare e.g.:1971 F. Collymore in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 81 The mongoose..is a troublesome sort of creature... For nobody seems to know with any degree of certainty which to choose of his plural forms—mongooses, mongeese, mongoose or mongooze. The evidence of contemporary dictionaries suggests that the most usual British pronunciation in the 19th cent. had /ʌ/ in the first syllable. Editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. give this as the first pronunciation until the mid 20th cent. (later editions give it as an alternative). Earlier editions of Jones give priority to forms with the stress on the second syllable, though other evidence for this is lacking. Some 19th-cent. dictionaries also enter the word under the spelling mungoose (e.g. the Imperial Dict. (1881)) or mungoos (e.g. the Encyclopædic Dict. (1885)). N.E.D. (1907) enters the word under Mongoose, mungoose, with corresponding pronunciations. Cent. Dict. (1890) enters it under the double form mongoos, mungoos, with corresponding pronunciations, but other U.S. dictionaries of the late 19th cent. prioritize the o-spelling and the corresponding pronunciation. 1. Any of numerous small carnivorous mammals constituting the family Herpestidae (frequently included with the civets and genets in the family Viverridae), which are native to Africa and southern Asia, have a long body and tail, short legs, and a grizzled or banded coat, and are noted for their skill in killing venomous snakes. Cf. meerkat n., suricate n.The Egyptian mongoose or ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon, was sacred to the ancient Egyptians, and is noted for its destruction of crocodile eggs.water mongoose: see water n. Compounds 8. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose) ichneumon1572 rat of Inde1601 Pharaoh's rat1605 Indian mouse1607 Pharaoh's mouse1607 Indian rat1613 mongoose1673 mungo1752 vansire1774 yellow mongoose1917 α. 1673 G. Aungier Let. 29 Sept. in C. Fawcett Eng. Factories in India (1936) I. 83 [My house is] miserably afflicted with rats so great that a mongoose or our cats will not meddle with them. 1681 R. Knox Ceylon III. xi. 233 The mounggoutia, a kind of ferret. This creature, when the noya and he meets, always fight. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 116 A Mongoose is a-kin to a Ferret. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 59 A species of East-India animal, called a Mungoes, which bears a natural antipathy to rats. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 3/2 The viverra ichneumon, which, by the Europeans, is called mongoos. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 204 A cat withstood the poison better than any other animal, excepting the Mungoose (Ichneumon). 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 629/1 The Indian ichneumon or mungoos..is considerably smaller than the Egyptian form. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 124 It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose. 1896 R. Lydekker Hand-bk. Carnivora 244 (heading) The mungooses. Genus Herpestes. 1927 L. Gask All about Animals 158 Mongooses..are well known in Africa and in the warmer parts of Asia. 1927 G. Jennison Nat. Hist.: Animals 82 Mongoose saved the West Indian sugar plantations from total destruction by rats. 1960 G. Durrell Zoo in my Luggage 109 Young pigmy mongooses flatly refuse to feed from bottle or from fountain pen filler. 1987 M. Das Cyclones xx. 108 A hurrying mongoose stopped near them and stood erect on its hind legs staring at Reena. β. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 304 The Weasil kind..comprehends..the Ferrit, the Mangoust [etc.].1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) II. 246 The viverra ichneumon, or the mangoust.1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 93 The Urva of Mr. Hodgson appears also to be a Mangouste, with incomplete orbits. 2. A nectar-feeding lemur, Eulemur mongoz, of north-eastern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Now only as mongoose lemur. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > genus Lemur (lemur) > miscellaneous types of macauco1751 mongoose1758 Madagascar cat1900 1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 12 The Mongooz. [Fr. parallel text Le Mongous.] These animals are brought from Madagascar, and many of the smaller islands between that and the East Indies; they seem to be one remove from the direct Monkey. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 240 A second of this kind [sc. the Maki], which is also a native of Madagascar, is the Mongooz. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 785/2 The mongooz, or woolly maucauco, inhabits Madagascar. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 60 L. mongoz..The Mongooz... The Mongous pass a considerable portion of the day in sleep. 1868 Museum Nat. Hist. I. 43 The Mongous (Lemur Mongoz)..is a little larger than the ring-tailed lemur. 1884 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 228 The Mongoose Lemur, or Woolly Macaco. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iv. 61 The mongoose lemur, the black lemur, and the red-fronted lemur take to diurnal habits very easily. 1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor i. 15 The woolly-coated orange-eyed mongoose lemurs bound from branch to branch, wagging their long thick tails like dogs. 1996 Zoo Biol. 15 1 Across the past 20 years, captive reproduction has declined steeply in mongoose lemurs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1673
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