单词 | yellow bob |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow bob yellow bob n. †(a) a yellow grub used as fishing bait (obsolete); (b) Australian the eastern yellow robin, Eopsaltria australis (see yellow robin n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > unspecified and miscellaneous types of yellow boba1609 a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. xlvii. sig. D2v Yealow bobs turnd vp before the Plough, Are chiefest bayts. 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler 70 Yellow Bobs are also of two sorts, the one bred in mellow light soils, and gathered after the Plough when the Land is first broken up from grazing, and are in season in the Winter till March; the other sort is bred under Cow-dung, hath a red head. 1855 W. A. Foster in Angler's Song Bk. 212 A yellow bob behind, And deep red hackle, fastened round With tinsel well entwined. 1896 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. 29 Aug. 23/4 Eopsaltria australis, Latham. Yellow-breasted Robin; ‘Yellow Bob’. 1981 P. Hay Meeting of Sighs 143 In the scrubland Yellow Bob Is singing in the light. 2013 I. Fraser & J. Gray Austral. Bird Names 258 Eastern Yellow Robin... Other names:..Yellowbob; Bark Robin..; Wild Canary. < as lemmas |
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