α. 1700s– burnie-bee, 1800s burnabee, 1800s burney-bee, 1800s– burny-bee.
β. 1800s barnabee, 1800s barney-bee, 1800s barnie-bee.
单词 | burnie-bee |
释义 | burnie-been.α. 1700s– burnie-bee, 1800s burnabee, 1800s burney-bee, 1800s– burny-bee. β. 1800s barnabee, 1800s barney-bee, 1800s barnie-bee. English regional (East Anglian). A ladybird. Cf. bishy barnabee n.Chiefly in the nursery rhyme first cited in quot. 1814. ΚΠ 1799 Ann. Anthol. 1 64 To the Burnie Bee. [Note] A provincial name for the beetle coccinella, or lady-bird. 1814 Monthly Mag. Sept. 148/1 In Norfolk the May-bird is called burnie-bee, by contraction from burnie-beetle, or fiery beetle. The following address to that insect is in the mouths of children there: Bless you, bless you, burnie-bee, Tell me where my true love be; Be she east, or be she west, Seek the path she loveth best. 1920 H. Bayley Archaic Eng. ix. 507 Burnie bee, Burnie bee, fly away home Your house is on fire, your children will burn. 2011 @insanebri 23 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Burnie bee, burnie bee, Tell me when your wedding be? If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1799 |
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