bloody noun

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The bullfrog, or the sound made by it. US,archaic,dialectal
    — "Ye little spalpeeny frog of a bog-throtting son of a bloody noun!"

词形变化

bloody nouns plural bloody-noun alternative bloodynoun alternative

词源

From "blood 'n' 'oun's", from "blood and wounds". Several sources, including Harrison Garman's 1892 A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois, say the frog is so called because "its peculiar bass notes […] have a fancied resemblance to the expression" blood and wounds and other similar-sounding and similarly imposing phrases like "be drowned".
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