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单词 nebbed
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nebbedadj.

Brit. /nɛbd/, U.S. /nɛbd/, Scottish English /nɛbd/, Irish English /nɛbd/
Forms: late Middle English 1800s– nebbed, 1600s (1800s– English regional (northern)) neb'd, 1800s– nebbut (English regional (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 1700s nebit, pre-1700 1700s– nebbed, pre-1700 1700s– nebbit, 1700s naibbed, 1800s nebed, 1800s neebit (north-eastern), 1800s– nebbid, 1900s– nebbet.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: neb n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < neb n. + -ed suffix2.
Now regional (chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern)).
Having a neb, esp. of a specified kind, as black-nebbed, blue-nebbed, red-nebbed, sharp-nebbed, etc.See also long-nebbed adj.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 13 v It byndeþ & fastneþ þose 2 nebbed [?c1425 Paris croked; L. rostrales] addicions þat þe pitty of þe middes holde more faste þe heued of þe vlue in þe iuncture.
1567 in A. J. Warden Dundee Burgh Laws (1872) 372 Thair sall na printeis wear ane quhingear nor scharp nebbit knyf.
1658 R. Moray Let. 25 Mar.–4 Apr. Short-nebbed sparrowes would come litle speed at your back dore.
1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 32 Impos'd on by lang-nebbit juglers Stock-jobbers, brokers [etc.].
1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 143 My daddie left me gear enough,..A nebbed staff [etc.].
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 77 Blue-nebb'd Watt and ewe-chin'd Dick.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 29 The mavis and the yellow-nebed blackburd.
1882 ‘J. Strathesk’ Bits from Blinkbonny vii. 148 A brood o' chickens, lang-leggit, sharp-nebbit things.
1948 R. Chandler Let. 27 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 130 I saw before me..short, dumpy, round-headed, balding, jug-eared, carnelian-nebbed, loud-bow-tied Atlantic-editor Morton.
1974 D. M. Jones Sleeping Lord 86 Bodies, whether stripped naked or in full battle-gear were left to be..supper for the hovering kite and for the black-nebbed corbie.
1991 ‘J. Gash’ Great Calif. Game (1992) xxvi. 230 A hunter's nebbed cap showing for a second against the lake's distant gleam.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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