| 单词 | peggy whitethroat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeggy whitethroat peggy whitethroat n. see sense 2. peggy whitethroat 2. British regional. Any of various warblers (family Sylviidae). Also: the pied wagtail, Motacilla alba. Also peggy dishwasher, peggy whitethroat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] warbler1773 fauvette1797 peggy1836 sylviad1867 Pallas's warbler1881 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Motacilla > motacilla alba (pied wagtail) washerc1325 washstarta1400 wevesterte14.. water swallow1544 dishwasher1575 water-wagtail1593 dishwater1674 seed bird1675 pied wagtail1744 willy wagtail1780 washerwoman1817 wash-dish1825 moll-washer1847 deviling1853 devil's bird1853 tinner1866 peggy1885 1836 C. Hooton Adventures Bilberry Thurland I. i. 6 The sides of her nose are freckled like a peggy whitethroat's egg. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Peggy, a name given to the garden warbler, the black-cap, both the whitethroats, the sedge-warbler, and probably others of the family. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 44 Pied Wagtail.., Peggy dishwasher (Kent). 1922 E. Booth Tree of Garden 81 The name of every bird was known to him, from the great brown ‘muck-bird’..to the..voluble Peggy-whitethroat..chattering in the hawthorn hedge. 1973 Times 31 Mar. 14/1 At Reading..this dapper black and white bird—the Peggy Dishwasher of rural folk tale—is adding a remarkable chapter to ornithological records. 2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 7 Mar. 14 We knew a ditch where we could find scribble larks'..nests and sometimes peggy whitethroats. < as lemmas |
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