单词 | rookish |
释义 | rookishadj. Of or relating to rooks; resembling a rook. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [adjective] > of or pert to rooks rookish1715 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts II. 261 The Raven there is great, has the first Place In Rank, of all the Crows and Rookish Race. 1738 Common Sense II. 120 They seem now to be the Outcasts of the Rookish Race. 1869 Daily News 23 Jan. It gives a rookish look to a corpulent Frenchman, and makes a thin one spectral. 1919 W. H. Hudson Bk. of Naturalist ix. 101 The rooks hated the herons and mobbed them and demolished their nests, and persecuted them in every rookish way. 2006 D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 22 How on earth the sour aunt went up and down in that big rookish dress was anybody's guess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1715 |
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