单词 | myxy |
释义 | myxyn.adj. colloquial. A. n. = myxomatosis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of rodents > [noun] slobbers1841 melioidosis1921 myxoma1927 myxomatosis1927 murine typhus1933 myxo1951 polyomavirus1958 myxy1961 1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused i. 15 Rabbits..were slowly returning after the second scourge of myxy. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 11 They've just come up with a new disease because rabbits have become immune to myxy. 1996 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Jan. 3 Rabbit pie is one of the fondly remembered delicacies of my youth and since myxy I have never eaten a wild rabbit. B. adj. Of a rabbit: suffering from myxomatosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of rodents > [adjective] Shope1934 murine1937 myxomatized1953 myxy1962 1962 R. Jeffries Exhibit No. 13 x. 97 He'd paid a quid for a myxy rabbit which he'd dropped about the warren. 1973 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 18 It is our custom to shoot any ‘myxy’ rabbits sitting out in the last stages of this horrible disease. 2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. 2 Victims do not show the wasted muscles and swollen eyes of myxy rabbits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1961 |
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