| 单词 |
cerigo |
| 释义 |
† cerigo, -gon Obs. rare. [see quot. 1753; and cf. F. sarigue opossum, from Brazilian çarigueya (Littré). Florio has It. cerigone (explained as in Kersey), which in form looks like an augmentative of cerigo ‘clerk, shaveling’.] The opossum.
1708Kersey, Cerigon, an American wild Beast having a Skin under the Belly like a Sack, which serves to carry its Young Ones. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The Americans in some places call this animal in their language carigueya; and it is probable that this name cerigo is only a corruption of that word, though it be received generally in the world as a proper name. |

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