单词 | starnel |
释义 | starneln. English regional (northern and midlands). The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris.Recorded earliest in ship-starnel n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Sturnus > sturnus vulgaris (starling) stareeOE starlingOE starle?1533 shepstare1563 ship-starnel1622 starnel1709 1709 Bedale Churchwardens' Accts. (N. Yorks. County Rec. Office, PR/BED 2/2) Pd. for killing Starnels..8d. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Starnel, a starling. North. 1848 Zoologist 6 2137 The starling in this dialect is a ‘starenil’ or ‘staynil’. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) I. 103 There flocks of starnels too repair When morning oer the valley springs. 1888 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens x. 158 Look at the starnels sattling down on the reeds! 1907 C. R. Haines Notes Birds Rutland 65 (heading) Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. (Starnel, sturnel, shepster.) 1923 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 291 They was all agreed aboot repairing spoot ower sooth door (starnils had made strange bad work wi' building their nests). 1977 R. Scollins & J. Titford Ey up, mi Duck! II. 46 Starnel, starling. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 291/1 Starnel, starnil, starling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1709 |
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