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单词 scritch owl
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scritch owln.

Brit. /ˈskrɪtʃ aʊl/, U.S. /ˈskrɪtʃ ˌaʊl/
Forms: see scritch n.1 and owl n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: scritch n.1, owl n.
Etymology: < scritch n.1 + owl n. Compare slightly later shritch-owl n. and later screech owl n., shriek-owl n.
1. The common barn owl, Tyto alba; = screech owl n. 1. Now archaic or regional.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl)
shritch?a1500
scritch owl1510
shritch-owl1538
strich1552
screech owl1567
shriek-owl1567
madge?1576
lich-owl1585
lich-fowl1611
jill-hooter1668
white owl1672
barn owl1674
church owl1678
aluco1753
padge1848
cherubim1864
squinch-owl1880
monkey-facec1940
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (new ed.) sig. C.vi Strix, a scryche oule.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/1 Scrytche houle a byrde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/1 Skrytche heule.
1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. C.ijv The Skrich Owle me besides, her dolefull tunes doth shreeke.
1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens in Wks. (1616) I. 951 The Scrich-owles egges, and the feathers blacke,..I haue been getting.
1731 S. Chandler tr. P. van Limborch Hist. Inquisition II. xxi. 87 Witches or Hags, which in Italy they commonly call Strigiæ, from their Resemblance to the Scritch-Owl, a Night and troublesome Bird.
1745 tr. G. Blas Henry & Blanche 40 Not a Sound disturbs the black Serene, Save what the Scritch-Owl with prophetick Throat to Mortals sings, and Fate's in ev'ry Note.
1827 in W. Motherwell Minstrelsy 256 The scritch owl screams so loud and clear, Tu whit tu who!
1882 ‘L. C. Pyrnelle’ Diddie, Dumps, & Tot xii. 143 I've jes put er few 'provemunce up, fur ter keep de scritch-owls outn my nes'.
1944 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 49 Scritch-owl, screech-owl.
1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt 269 Mary Morning cried, ‘I seen something sliding.’ ‘A rat. A scritch-owl.’
1993 L. Nordan Wolf Whistle 157 No foxes barked tonight, no scritch owls called from the barn.
2. figurative. A person likened to a screech owl; esp. a person who bears bad news or foretells misfortune; = screech owl n. 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > one who predicts > misfortune
scritch owl1595
screech owl1602
raven1606
croaker1637
Balaam1649
prophet of doom1862
Doomie1945
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. vi. 56 Bring forth that fatall skrichowle to our house, That nothing sung to vs but bloud and death.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 187 What is poore, and silly man alone, but a very scrich-owle, and satyre.
1660 J. S. Andromana v. vi. sig. H4 Speak out Scritch-owl, Witch, how came they by their deaths?
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Poet. Wks. (1836) I. 20 'Tis thou who pour'st the scritch owl note.
1834 Parterre of Fiction I. 133/2 I'll slit your weasand, you skritch owl!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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