单词 | teuk |
释义 | teukn. local. The name given in East Anglia, Essex, and Kent to a bird, the Redshank, Totanus calidris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank) redshank1525 redling1655 pool-snite1661 pool snipe1678 red-legged horseman1678 red-legged sandpiper1785 red-leg1798 sand cock1804 snipe1829 redshank gambet1840 teuk1859 yelper1892 1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 300 A man went with a sailor to shoot teukes. 1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London (ed. 2) 256 The redshank, pool-snipe, teuke or took. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 11/1 The Redshank. The clear ‘teuk~teuk’ will break upon the stillness that reigns around, showing your deadly presence is detected.] 1910 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 11/1 The ‘teuk’, as they call the redshank in [the Essex marshes]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1859 |
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