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单词 bower-bird
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bower-birdn.

Brit. /ˈbaʊəbəːd/, U.S. /ˈbaʊərˌbərd/
Etymology: < bower n.1 + bird n.
1. The name given to several Australian birds belonging to the Starling family, remarkable for their habit of building bowers or ‘runs’, and adorning them with feathers, bones, shells, etc. These are not used as nests, but as places of resort.
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bower-bird1847
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §395.
1884 Grant Allen in Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 He had brought a bower of the Australian bower-birds over to England.
2. figurative. A person who collects ornaments, odds and ends, etc. (see also quot. 1943). Also attributive. Hence as v. intransitive, to pick up odds and ends.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun]
mitcher?c1225
nimmera1325
pilferer1350
truffer1485
lurcher1528
picker1549
filcher1557
purloiner1557
prig1567
prigger1567
prigman1567
fingerer1575
piker1590
prag1592
nibbler1598
lurch-man1603
petty larcener1640
budge1673
catch-cloaka1679
prigster1682
sutler1699
marauder1764
snib1823
chicken thief1840
lurker1841
souvenir hunter1862
robberling1865
jackdaw1887
miker1890
frisker1892
bower-bird1926
jagoff1931
magpie1944
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > be stored [verb (intransitive)] > store > collect and store odds and ends
bower-bird1926
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > collecting curiosities, etc. > one who
collector1774
bower-bird1926
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 193/2 Such bower-birds' treasures as au pied de la lettre, à merveille.
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 194/1 Every writer..who suspects himself of the bower-bird instinct should make and use some such classification system.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxvii. 301 George the Bower-bird..was..prowling around deserted camps, swooping on rubbish.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxvii. 301 I don't want him bower-birding round this camp.
1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 13 Bower bird, a petty thief.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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