单词 | teuk |
释义 | teuk local.|tjuːk| [From its note of alarm.] The name given in East Anglia, Essex, and Kent to a bird, the Redshank, Totanus calidris.
1859Atkinson Walks & Talks (1892) 300 A man went with a sailor to shoot teukes. 1892Within an hour of Lond. (ed. 2) 256 The redshank, pool-snipe, teuke or took. [1910Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 11/1 The Redshank. The clear ‘teuk⁓teuk’ will break upon the stillness that reigns around, showing your deadly presence is detected. ] Ibid., The ‘teuk’, as they call the redshank in [the Essex marshes]. |

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