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单词 scald-crow
释义

scald-crown.

Forms: Also scalte-, scale-, scaul- (see also E.D.D.).
Etymology: ? < scald adj.1
A name in Ireland for the Hooded Crow ( Corvus cornix). Also figurative.
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1834 S. Lover Legends & Stories Ireland 2nd Ser. 281 That one is for that poor scaldcrow there,..little Fairly.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 268 All the other scaul-crows set upon her, and pecked her to death there and then.
1879 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis (1882) I. i. 8 We tear along,..scaring dozens of white-backed scald-crows.
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