单词 | pink-pink |
释义 | > as lemmaspink-pink 2. In reduplicated form pink-pink. The call of a chaffinch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch) > sound made by pink1831 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 128 The weet-weet and pink-pink of the chaffinch. 1923 W. Hudson Hind in Richmond Park i. 4 The pink-pink of a startled chaffinch. 1998 Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. (Features section) The word ‘finch’ is a direct imitation of one of the chaffinch's call-notes, a loud ‘pink, pink’ which is also much in use at the moment. < as lemmas |
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