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单词 tait
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taitn.

Brit. /teɪt/, U.S. /teɪt/, Australian English /tæet/
Etymology: Aboriginal name.
Australian.
= honey possum n. at honey n. and adj. Compounds 1b(b).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Phalangeridae (phalanger) > genus Tarsipes (honey possum)
noolbengera1845
tait1894
honey mouse1923
honey possum1938
1894 R. Lydekker Hand-bk. Marsupialia 121 Known to the natives by the name of Tait, and Nulbenger, the Long-snouted Phalanger..is generally found..from Swan River to King George's Sound.
1941 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. 81 The quaint little animal had quite a variety of names in the native vocabularies.., the one favoured as a popular name being ‘Noolbenger’, and others including ‘Ait’ [sic] and ‘Deed’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

taitadj.

Forms: Also Middle English teyte, tayt.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse teitr.
Etymology: < Old Norse teitr glad, cheerful, corresponding to a doubtful Old English tǽtan to gladden, cheer, from an adjective *tát, and in form to Old High German, Middle High German zeiz tender, dear, pleasing.
ME. and Scottish. Obsolete.
Cheerful, lively, active, nimble.
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the world > movement > bodily movement > [adjective] > qualities of bodily movement > agile or nimble
lightOE
quiverOE
yepec1275
taitc1300
yap13..
delivera1375
swippera1387
wight1390
nimblea1400
yarea1400
yerna1400
smitherc1475
leger1483
agilea1500
liver1530
lightsome1567
wimble1579
nimble jointed1591
nimble shifting1591
agilious1599
nimbling1599
nimble spirited1611
expedite1612
fitchanta1616
airy1642
fantastic1645
volant1650
clever1691
light-limbed1695
spry1746
swack1768
swank1786
yauld1787
deliverly1820
slippy1847
nippy1849
springe1859
pantherish1869
pantherine1890
flippant1895
loose1907
Tarzanesque1933
Tarzan-like1943
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerful and lively
taitc1300
cant1330
crouse?a1400
pert?a1513
sprightya1522
aleger1590
sprightly1594
sunshine1594
brighta1616
lifesomec1635
flippant1711
cantya1724
saucy1741
chirk1789
chipper1806
chirrupy1808
up1815
chirpy1837
breezy1870
cyclonish1884
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1841 Þe laddes were kaske and teyte.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1377 Techeȝ hym to þe tayles of ful tayt bestes.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 871 I schal biteche yow þo two þat tayt arn & quoynt.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1410 in Poems (1981) 57 Swa come ane trip off myis out off thair nest, Richt tait and trig.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 184 Litill lammis Full tait and trig socht bletand to thar dammis.
1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 149 Ouir all the gait, Sa mony thevis sa tait.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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