| 单词 | scotch goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScotch goose Scotch goose n. [after post-classical Latin anser scoticus brent or barnacle goose, (also) gannet (mid 17th cent.); compare earlier Scots goose n. at Scots adj. and n. Compounds 3] now chiefly historical either the barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis, or the brent goose, B. bernicla. ΚΠ a1682 Sir T. Browne Norfolk Birds in Notes & Lett. Nat. Hist. Norfolk (1902) 13 Scoch goose Anser scoticus. 1775 W. Hayes Nat. Hist. Brit. Birds 14 The Bernacle [or]..Scotch Goose. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) (ed. 2) 48 The old Scotch geese allers show up in hard frost, but 'aint they shy! 1958 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. VIII. xxiv. 51 Robert Sibbald in his Scotia illustrata (..1684) again confuted the fable of Scotch geese. < as lemmas |
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