单词 | skipping stickleback |
释义 | > as lemmasskipping stickleback 1. That skips. Also spec. in skipping stickleback (see quot. 1803). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > skipping skipping1560 1560 Bible (Geneva) Wisd. xvii. 19 The running of skipping beastes, that colde not be sene. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 60 The skipping king, he ambled vp and downe. View more context for this quotation 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F3v Hee's a good skipping Swaggerer. View more context for this quotation 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 111 A designe to make your skipping suiters hop away and leave you. 1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid i. v. 12 Indeed with your little pert skipping Beaux, I don't know what may happen. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 A skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe. 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 609 Skipping Stickleback, Gasterosteus Saltatrix... Stickleback with eight dorsal spines connected by a membrane. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 95 A she-goat..with her two little black fantastically-skipping kids. < as lemmas |
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