单词 | squinch-owl |
释义 | squinch-owln. U.S. local. = screech owl n. 1b. ΘΚΠ 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 1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus: Songs & Sayings xix. 89 Word went roun' dat de man Squinch Owl done kotch nudder watzizname. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 48 I heard a squinch owl that night. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 23 Screech (or scritch, or squeach, or squinch, or scrooch) owl, Otus asio, each name of which suggests some characteristic of the little owl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1880 |
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