单词 | cockyolly |
释义 | cockyolly|kɒkɪˈɒlɪ| In cockyolly bird, a nursery or pet expression for ‘dear little bird’: cf. dicky-bird.
1837Correspondent says, ‘Cockyolly bird was familiar to me as a schoolboy in 1837’. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xv. So Major Campbell prepares the charming little cockyoly birds. 1863― Water-bab. viii. 310 All the butterflies and cockyoly birds would fly past me. 1877Besant & Rice Son of Vulc. i. xi. 118 The little cockyolly bird is taken in the net. |

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