lapwing

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
    — Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
  2. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.; The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
  3. A silly man. obsolete
    — This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

词形变化

lapwings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
African wattled lapwing Andean lapwing banded lapwing black-headed lapwing blacksmith lapwing black-winged lapwing brown-chested lapwing cayenne lapwing crowned lapwing gray-headed lapwing gray lapwing Javan lapwing long-toed lapwing masked lapwing northern lapwing pied lapwing red-wattled lapwing river lapwing Senegal lapwing sociable lapwing southern lapwing spot-breasted lapwing spur-winged lapwing wattled lapwing white-crowned lapwing white-headed lapwing white-tailed lapwing yellow-wattled lapwing
相关词
plover

词源

From Middle English lapwynge, lapwynke, lappewincke, lapwynche, lhapwynche, from Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), from Old English hlēapan (“to leap”) + wincian (“to wink, make a sign”), due to its manner of flight. Cognate with West Frisian ljip (“lapwing”).
The modern form is influenced by folk etymology to resemble English wing.
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