Dog Days and Dandelions: A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday WordsMacmillan, 12 בפבר׳ 2003 - 194 עמודים From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is crawling with bugs. Wordhound Martha Barnette collects more than 300 common (and a few not-so-common) words that have surprising animal roots. Tracing word origins back to ancient Greek and Latin as well as to European roots and American slang, the entries offer a guided tour through literature, science, folklore, politics, and more--with a wilderness of animal meanings at every turn. For fledgling word sleuths as well as those who fawn over etymologies, this is a delightful smorgasbord for writers, students, and word lovers. |
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Dog Days and Dandelions: A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind ... <span dir=ltr>Martha Barnette</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |
Dog Days and Dandelions: A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind ... <span dir=ltr>Martha Barnette</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |
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adjective alludes ancient Greek animal appears applied beast bidet bird bird word bird’s borrowed BOUSTROPHEDON bovine buck buff called caper CHEVAL CHEVAL GLASS COCCYX color comes CORBEL DANDELION deer denotes describe someone Deseret Deseret Alphabet dog’s earliest sense early EASEL English speakers English term etymological relative Etymologists eventually expression fact falconry feather feminine name fish flower glish goat Greek word hackney hawk Hebrew Hebrew word hoopoe horse horse’s humble pie Incidentally insect inside inspired Italian word jumentous language later Latin word linguistic relative literally means look LYCANTHROPE Middle English nest Old English word Old French Old French word one’s originally meant Oxford English Dictionary phrase plume pronounced quarry referred resembles rollmops Romans rooster root shrewd similarly snallygaster SOMMELIER Spanish speakers of English synonym tacky tail takes its name There’s Today urchin variant verb vespertilian wallop word that means word’s words that literally writer