单词 | tait |
释义 | taitn. Australian. = honey possum n. at honey n. and adj. Compounds 1b(b). ΘΚΠ 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. ME. and Scottish. Obsolete. Cheerful, lively, active, nimble. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1894adj.c1300 |
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