| 单词 | plain turkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplain turkey plain turkey n. Australian (a) the Australian bustard, Ardeotis australis; (b) slang a bush tramp. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Otididae > member of genus Ardeotis (Australian bustard) kori bustard1811 gompaauw1838 native, plain, or wild turkey1847 plain turkey1866 plains turkey1914 1866 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 36 45 More game is to be found here than we have seen for a long time; kangaroo, wallaby, scrub and plain turkeys, pheasants, black cockatoos, parrots, and many pigeons. 1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland iv. 122 The plain turkey or bustard (Otis Australasianus)..the male weighing from eighteen to twenty-five pounds. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 20/2 The plain turkey, or lesser bustard, one of Australia's finest gamebirds, is reported to be fading out in one of its few remaining strongholds—the great plains of Western Queensland. 1955 D. Niland Shiralee 27 An old bundle of a man came down the road from the west. Macauley watched him approaching and recognized him at once for what he was, a flat country bagman, a type on his own... In his time he had met plenty of these plain-turkeys, as they were known. 2004 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 2 Apr. 3 His mouth was so wide that ‘if a plain turkey flew into it the bird would go straight down without touching the sides’. plain turkey b. plain turkey, scrub turkey: humorous names for swagmen who haunt, respectively, the Australian plains and the bush [perhaps with partial allusion to the ‘turkey’ (sense 5 below) which they carry] . Australian slang. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1955 A. Marshall I can jump Puddles 152 Father..was familiar with the ways of swagmen... The bearded men who kept to the bush he called ‘Scrub Turkeys’ and those who came down from the plains he called ‘Plain Turkeys’. 1973 F. Huelin Keep Moving 178 Scrub Turkey, bagman who has gone Bush. Usually slightly mental or eccentric. < as lemmas |
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