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語源

From 中期英語 cockshoot or a compound of cock (noun) +‎ shut (verb).

名詞

cockshut (countable and uncountable, plural cockshuts)

1. (countable, obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
2. (uncountable, puristic, otherwise obsolete) Twilight, when poultry would be shut in for the night.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third', act 5, scene 3:

     Sir Richard Ratcliff: Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
     Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop
     Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.

   • 1603, Ben Jonson, The Satyr; republished in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume 6, London: For G. and W. Nicol, et al, 1816, page 473:

     1 Fai.: Mistress, this is only spite:
     For you would not yesternight
     Kiss him in the cock-shut light.

   • 2012 November, Leon Robert McNarry, “The Erendrake”, in Poems, Tales & Whimsy, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 28:

     In the quiet cockshut after a heavy darg, a boonfellow likes to croodle with her fanger (or he with his bellibone) as they watch the sunset through the eyethurl.

同意語

• crepusculum, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk

派生語

• cockshut time

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