亚洲网紅露点

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lintwhite

[ lint-hwahyt, -wahyt ]

noun

Chiefly Scot.
  1. the linnet, Carduelis cannabina.


lintwhite

/ 藞濒瑟苍迟藢飞补瑟迟 /

noun

  1. archaic.
    the linnet
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lintwhite1

before 900; lint (syncopated variant of linnet ) + white; replacing Middle English lynkwhytte, alteration (perhaps by association with link hill ( links ) and whit ) of Old English 濒墨苍别迟飞颈驳别 linnet, literally, flax (or flax-field) trouble-maker, so called because the bird pecks out and eats flaxseed, equivalent to 濒墨苍别迟- (< Medieval Latin 濒墨苍脓迟耻尘 flax-field) + -wige, feminine of wiga fighter
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lintwhite1

Old English 濒墨苍别迟飞颈驳别, probably from 濒墨苍 flax + -twige, perhaps related to Old High German zwigon to pluck
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Example Sentences

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I鈥檓 up in the morning early To meet the dawn of day, And to the lintwhite鈥檚 piping The many鈥檚 the tune I play.

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There鈥檚 Gala Water, Leader Haughs, Both lying right before us; And Dryburgh, where with chiming Tweed The lintwhites sing in chorus.

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But hawks will rob the tender joys That bless the little lintwhite鈥檚 nest; And frost will blight the fairest flowers, And love will break the soundest rest.

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He had no reason to suppose that this day more than another he would find her, but there, half a mile from White Farm, he came upon her, standing, watching a lintwhite's nest.

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Song I The lintwhite and the throstlecock Have voices sweet and clear; All in the bloom猫d May.

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