单词 | old coney |
释义 | > as lemmasold coney b. gen. In early use often: spec. (more fully old coney) an adult rabbit; a rabbit over a year old.Rabbit was originally a name for the young animal only: see rabbit n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) coneyc1430 rabbit1502 bunny1699 pussy1715 mappie1825 map1866 drummer1894 flopsy bunny1909 underground mutton1946 c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 193 The litele conyes to here pley gunne hye. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 421 Rabet, yonge conye, cunicellus. a1450 (c1400) in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 78 (MED) Þe lion, whan a is an-hungred, a wil nat gladliche tak a litel beste, as an har or a konyng. 1532 Romaunt Rose in Wks. G. Chaucer f. cxxxv/2 Connes there were also playenge That comyn out of her clapers. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Rabet, or yonge conye. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxiii. 178 The Conie beareth hyr Rabettes .xxx. dayes. 1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 18 I sawe the Cunnin [ed. 2 Cunning] and the cat, Quhais downes with the dewe was wat. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Counilleau, a young Rabbet, little young Connie. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 132 A conie, 1 [year] a Rabett, and after an old Cony. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Old-Coney, after the first Year. 1735 Sportsman's Dict. II. sig. Ss4v/1 A coney is called the first year a rabbet, and afterwards an old coney. 1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 600 Holes like those of Conies. 1759 S. Johnson Rasselas I. xiii. 93 The conies, which the rain had driven from their burrows, had taken shelter among the bushes. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 507/2 L. cuniculus. Rabbit... E. Coney. S. Kinnen. The rabbit is common in Scotland and the islands. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xii. i. 250 You might see..the hares and conies stealing forth to sport or to feed. 1867 E. Sauter tr. F. von Hochstetter New Zealand 161 It..is of the size of a large cony with a glossy brown fur. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water viii Conies, like elfin things, gambolled in the grass before her. 1958 Boys' Life Nov. 86/4 In the complete silence that followed her going, the conys crouching in their earth ceased to tremble. 1993 I. Macleod & P. Cairns Conc. Eng.-Scots Dict. Rabbit, kinnen, kyunnen. 1997 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 Jan. 1 The humble cony or European rabbit..has become a major pest throughout The Hills district of Sydney's north-west. < as lemmas |
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