| 单词 |
baa |
| 释义 |
▪ I. baa, v.|bɑː|
Also 7–9 ba(e.
[Formed in imitation of a sheep's or lamb's bleat; cf. Norm.F. bai, Cat. be, sheep.]
To bleat.
a1586Sidney (J.) Like a lamb, whose dam away is set, He treble baas for help. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 12 He's a Lambe indeed, that baes like a Beare. 1765C. Smart Phædrus (Bohn) iii. xiv. 506 You little fool, why, how you baa! This goat is not your own mamma. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile vi. 138 Our sacrificial sheep..comes baaing in the rear.
▪ II. baa, n.|bɑː|
Forms: 6–7 bea, ba, (7 Sc. bae), 7– baa, 9 (reduplicated) ba-ba.
[f. prec. vb.]
a. The cry of a sheep or lamb; a bleat.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 37 They haue no propertie of sheepe but bea. c1600Ever-Green (1761) II. 58 With mony a Bae and Bleit. 1870Daily News 11 Oct., We civic sheep have set up so loud a ba-ba that we have terrified the wolves. 1877Blackie Wise Men 264 The snow-white lamb..fills the solitude with tremulous baa.
b. Comb., as bea-waymenting, baa-wailing; baa(h-ling, a little lamb; baa-lamb, nursery equivalent of ‘lamb’; also, a toy lamb.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) lxix. 77 Still for thy Dam with bea-waymenting crie. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkewormes 3 Then hairy cloathes, and wooll from Baa-lambs tore. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 4/2 There bea-wailing strays A harmless lamb. 1854Thackeray Newcomes 2 Silly little knock-kneed baah-ling. 1871Mrs. Craik Little Sunshine's Holiday ii. 31 Little Sunshine was greatly charmed with the ‘baa-lambs’. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere III. vi. xxxix. 174 The baby..was..caressing..a woolly baa-lamb. 1906(title) The baa lamb's ABC. |
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