| 单词 | pricky-back urchin |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspricky-back urchin pricky-back n. English regional (northern) (a) (more fully pricky-back urchin) a hedgehog; cf. pricky urchin n.; (b) rare = prickleback n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > species aculeatus (three-spined stickleback) banstickle1483 prickleback1747 three-spined stickleback1769 prickly-back1862 pricky-back1864 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 219 Next I kenned 'twere a prickyback. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (ed. 2) 75/1 Pricky back, the stickleback or thornback fish. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 356 Ah seed yan o' them pricky-back otch'ns a bit sen. 1995 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 18 Is there a better word for a hedgehog than a ‘prickyback’, or for diarrhoea than ‘scutters’? < as lemmas |
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