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单词 pickmire
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pickmiren.

Brit. /ˈpɪkmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈpɪkˌmaɪ(ə)r/, Scottish English /ˈpɪkmaɪr/
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pickmaw n.
Etymology: Probably an alteration by folk etymology of pickmaw n., after pick- comb. form and mire n.1 (compare quot. 1942). Compare mire crow n. at mire n.1 Compounds 2.
Chiefly Scottish and English regional.
= pickmaw n. Also English regional (Cornwall): a tern (genus Sterna) (now rare).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus ridibundus (black-headed gull)
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peewit1678
pickmire1678
red-legged gull1785
black cap1802
pirr1818
red-leg1831
lapwing-gull1844
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. vii. 19 Several sorts of Gull, viz. 1. Mire-crows... 2. Annets... 3. Pickmires, or Sea Swallows. 5. Terns.
a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 183 Mire crow, all White-bodied... Puets. Pick-Mire.
1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 226 (heading) Brown-Headed Gull. Red-Legged Gull, or Pickmire.
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Black-headed Provincial [names]. Pickmire, Black-head, or Hooded-crow.
1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 209 Black-headed gull... Pick sea; Pictarn; Pickmire (Roxburgh).
1942 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 10 1003 English examples [of birds named from their feeding habits]: pickmire (black-headed gull); moth-hawk (night-jar).
1963 R. M. Nance Gloss. Cornish Sea-words 125 Pickmire, a tern.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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