| 单词 |
dikkop |
| 释义 |
dikkop S. Afr.|ˈdɪkəp|
Also diccop, dickop, dik-kop, dikop.
[Afrikaans, f. dik thick + kop head.]
1. The stone-curlew.
1853Edin. New Philos. Jrnl. LV. 83 The dickop..seem to emerge from their daylight concealment. 1858A. W. Drayson Sporting Scenes 17 One or two of the bustard tribe are also found here, and are called the diccop, coran, and pouw. 1873tr. J. Verne's Meridiana xvi. 148 The hunters shot..some ‘dikkops’, whose flesh is very delicate eating. 1891Daily Graphic 17 Aug. 5 Eleven snipe, one dikkop, one wild turkey, one blue crane. 1903E. Glanville Diamond Seekers 116 They're playing dik-kop... The dik-kop drops his wing and shams hurt to lead you off. 1939S. Cloete Watch for Dawn ix. 114 The moonlit nights when dikkops and the kievietjes screamed as they flew to water. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxii. 270 The dikkops or stone curlews.—Two species of these are described in South Africa, the Cape Dikkop (Burhinus capensis), and the Water Dikkop (Burhinus vermiculator).
2. A form of blue tongue (see blue tongue 1).
1870T. Baines Diary 8 Dec. (1946) III. 762 One of whose horses was standing apart, suffering from the ‘dikkop’ form of horse sickness. 1959Cape Times 28 Jan. 2/3 Dikkop, the dreaded sheep-killing disease, is raging at Murraysburg. |
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