单词 | musky |
释义 | muskyn. North American colloquial. = muskrat n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Ondatra (musk-rat) water rat1481 rat1584 mussascus1612 muskrat1615 musquash1616 squash1678 Muscovy rat1693 musk beaver1771 Ondatra1774 rat-tailed shrew1827 mushrat1842 beaver-rat1884 musky1884 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Nov. 704/1 I saw the dead musky being carried off. 1967–9 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 742/2 Names or nicknames..for the..muskrat, [Georgia] Musky, mushrat... [Massachusetts] Muskies... [Nebraska] Musky... [Pennsylvania] Muskrat or musky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). muskyadj. 1. a. Having a smell or taste like that of musk; perfumed with musk. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things rosat?c1425 rosetc1450 rosed1559 musked1576 musky1580 rosya1586 myrrhed1591 muskifiedc1600 roseal1601 olibian1605 roseate1611 honeysuckled1640 myrrhate1659 muscatelline1673 myrrhy1686 muskish1706 thymy1746 rose-scented1759 civeted1785 lily-scented1796 ottoed1810 citron-scented1817 camphory1826 camphoraceous1845 tea-scented1845 frankincensed1860 rose-like1866 sagey1871 camphorous1881 osier-odoured1881 lemony1894 lavendery1896 patchoulied1925 1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 18 A noble seate..where loe sweete Cipres groes, And many other precious things, more sweete then Muskie roes. ?c1599 ‘Ignoto’ in J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigr. & Elegies sig. D4v I will not sue, Or shew my loue as muskie Courtiers doe. c1610 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell 13 A Muskie-Gentle, we did visit then, A Silken Gallant. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 502 Muske is made of a certaine beast called Gudderi,..which once in the Moone sheddeth his muskie bloud. 1637 J. Milton Comus 34 West winds, with muskie wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia's balmie smells. 1772 W. Jones Poems 19 The floating ringlets of his musky hair. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 34 The musky seeds of Hibiscus Abelmoschus. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxvi. 256 Holding a most musky pocket-handkerchief up to his face. 1888 Graphic 21 Jan. 54 The musky flesh of the animal [sc. a crocodile]. 1963 Wine Mag. May–June 465/1 Musky Wines. 1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall iii. 84 But now the smells are those only of the musky forest. b. Of a smell, taste, etc. ΚΠ 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 81 O what a muskie sent the ayre doth cast. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 775 Some rich sables of muskie sent. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2220 An Insect..which when dried yields a Musky scent. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 47/2 A Musk Pear..is..of a Musky Taste. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 107 The musky flavour of the apricot. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 44 A sort of indistinct slightly musky perfume, like that said to frequent Oriental bazaars. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 228 It does not remove the musky taste from crocodile. 1983 E. Pizzey Watershed i. iv. 28 She gave off a musky smell; the hairs under her arms were thick and tangled. c. In extended use: evocative of musk; heady, potent, charged; richly sensual. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [adjective] > causing inebriousc1450 intoxicating1606 heady1669 head-turning1803 inebriating1806 musky1858 intoxicant1861 1858 R. W. Emerson Persian Poetry in Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (Bohn) III. 247 The garden flowers are never wanting in these musky verses. 1901 Henley in Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 262 His [sc. Rossetti's] musky, strenuous, high-piled achievements in words. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 161/3 M Jullian is elaborately read in the muskier literature of the French fin de siècle. 2. In the names of plants and animals having an odour of musk. Often used as equivalent to musk: cf. musk n. 1b, Compounds 5a. ΚΠ 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 476 Shrew, Musky... Muscovy or Musk rat. 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 728 Erodium moschatum..Angl. Musky Stork's-bill. Muscovy. 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 82 Ajuga Iva. Musky Bugle. 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 308 E[rodium] moschatum, Sm. (musky Stork's-bill)... Larger than the last [sc. E. cicutarium] and with much less deeply cut leaflets, which yield a powerful smell of musk. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. pl. 52 Trichoglossus concinnus, Vig. and Horsf. Musky Parrakeet... Musk Parrakeet, Colonists. 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Musky-mole, Scaptochirus moschatus. 1896 F. G. Aflalo Nat. Hist. Austral. 126 The Varied Lorikeet (Ptilosclera) and the Musky Lorikeet. 1931 C. E. Salmon Flora of Surrey 216 (heading) E. moschatum..Musky Stork's-bill. 1989 New Scientist 15 Apr. 47/2 The musky rat-kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, which belongs to its own subfamily, has a simple stomach, and basically eats insects or fungi. Compounds musky-breathed adj. ΚΠ 1831 Ld. Tennyson Anacreontics in Gem 131 With roses musky-breathed. 1886 Overland Monthly May 459 The swamp flowers musky-breathed. musky-scented adj. ΚΠ 1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 272/1 It [sc. the Common Bottle-gourd] is a climbing musky-scented annual. 1996 Tennessean (Nexis) 10 Jan. 1 f Buy fresh musky-scented cumin or grind your own from the cumin seeds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884adj.1580 |
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