单词 | magozin |
释义 | ▪ I. ‖ magot|ˈmægət, mago| [Fr.] 1. A species of ape (Macacus inuus); the ‘tailless’ Barbary Ape of Gibraltar and North Africa.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 12 There was at Paris another beast called a Tartarine, and in some places a Magot (much lyke a Baboun). 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vii. i. 498 The Cynocephalus, or the Magot of Buffon. 1882A. R. Wallace in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 423 In some few this stump is so very short that there appears to be no tail, as in the magot of North Africa and Gibraltar. 2. A small grotesque figure of porcelain, ivory, wood, etc. of Chinese or Japanese workmanship.
1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon xiii, Her rooms were crowded with hideous China magots. 1881Saintsbury Dryden ii. 35 This [see Ann. Mirab. st. 29] cannot be considered the happiest possible means of informing us that the Dutch fleet was laden with spices and magots. ▪ II. magot, magozin obs. ff. maggot, magazine. |

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