单词 | monkey-face |
释义 | monkey-facen. 1. a. A face like that of a monkey; an amusing or funny face. Also: a person with a monkey-like or amusing face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] muskin1530 vizard1568 monkey-face?1589 chitty-face1601 angel face1605 smock-face1605 fish-facea1625 platter face1631 ammunition face1649 horn-facea1668 baby facea1684 crab face1706 hatchet face1707 splatter-face1707 paddock-face1724 pudding face1748 dough face1755 Madonna face1790 company face1798 moon-face1822 pug-facea1845 puss1844 frog-face1872 bun-face1913 bitch face1969 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 3 Good munckie face Machiuell, shew but thy head once. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mona, an ape, a munkie, a pug, a kittin, a munkie face. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 333 One..made us good laughing, with his mows and monkey faces. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 13 Sept. 2/1 Harry will..have his little Monkey-face mounted to adorn the top of the Amsterdam Coffee-house. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 19 Doctor Catgut, the meagre musician; that sick monkey-face maker of crotchets. 1817 G. Soane Innkeeper's Daughter i. ii. 20 Sapperment! but it's true—You may laugh mein herr, and make die monkey-faces, aber es geht nicht—it won't do. 1869 G. Meredith Egoist I. vi. 93 I see a ring of monkey-faces grinning at me: they haunt me. 1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes lvi. 130 Where did ja cop dat monkeyface. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 34 Hello, leedle Don! Leedle monkey-face! I did not recognise you. 1992 M. Cole Dangerous Lady (BNC) 10 Benny looked up with his little monkey face. His mouth was full of food. b. Caribbean colloquial. A grimace, esp. one intended to frighten, or made by a child as a sign of disrespect or annoyance. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion mowc1330 mopa1475 mocks and mows1508 murgeons?a1513 face1533 smile1550 smilet1591 mump1592 ruffle1602 frown1608 stitcha1625 grimace1651 grimask1671 simagre1680 moppet1693 distortion1718 throw1790 rictus1827 mug1844 monkey-face1939 1939 A. Calder-Marshall Glory Dead 56 I say ‘Get out of dat car presently,’ and he just laugh and make monkey face. 1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun iv. 58 ‘Pewee, come an' go to school!’ but Pewee made them a ‘monkey face’ and ran into the shop. 1964 I. Khan Obeah Man 67 Like if you have something lock up inside you that does come out in the night and make monkey-face at you in your sleep. 1993 R. Baptiste Trini Talk 114 You eh tired make monkey face behind de teacher back? ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > yielding masticatory products > [noun] > areca palm, nut, or leaf areca1588 faufel1594 drunken date1597 supari1598 pinang1606 betel nut1681 monkey-face1700 betel palm1861 catechu palm1866 1700 L. Plukenet Opera Bot. (1769) III. 145 Palma Arecifera fructu compresso [etc.]. Hujus fructus Nucis..ex Angola allatus est, & à nostratibus Monkey-face, ibi dictus. 3. U.S. A freshwater mussel, Quadrula metanevra (family Unionidae), with a yellow to light brown shell, found in medium to large rivers in parts of the United States. Also (with distinguishing word): any other mussel of this genus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > member of musseleOE palour1589 pearl mussel1607 hena1613 horse-mussel1626 clam1672 clamp1672 pearl shell1781 glam1797 naiad1829 naid1854 unionid1861 zebra mussel1866 hackleback1899 maple leaf1908 monkey-face1936 1936 Ecology 17 40 The Yellow Sand-shell..was the most readily killed by silt deposits, and..the Maple Leaf, Quadrula quadrula, and the Monkey-face Quadrula metanevra, were among the more resistant. 1979 Wisconsin Week-end 6 Apr. 6 Such shellfish as the..monkey face..go right on living their private lives in the quiet waterways of the Mississippi. 1988 Amer. Fisheries Soc. Special Publ. No. 16. 32 Quadrula couchiana... Rio Grande monkeyface. 1999 S. Jones Almost like Whale xii. 289 On the way they have driven out their native equivalents, the purple wartyback, the shiny pigtoe and the monkey-face included. 4. U.S. regional. The barn owl, Tyto alba. Also monkey-face owl. Cf. monkey-faced owl n. at monkey-faced adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl) shritch?a1500 scritch owl1510 shritch-owl1538 strich1552 screech owl1567 shriek-owl1567 madge?1576 lich-owl1585 lich-fowl1611 jill-hooter1668 white owl1672 barn owl1674 church owl1678 aluco1753 padge1848 cherubim1864 squinch-owl1880 monkey-facec1940 c1940 LAMSAS Materials in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 645/1 Monkey-face owl—middle-sized. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 180 The barn owl is very generally called monkey-faced owl, a designation often shortened to monkey face. 1961 J. S. Ligon New Mexico Birds 142 The heartshaped facial disc has given rise to the widely used name ‘monkey-face’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1589 |
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