英和和英

名詞

guyascutis (複数形 guyascutises)

1. Alternative form of guyascutus
   • 1879, George Augustus Sala, ‎Edmund Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 55, page 229:

     “An' hyar you behol' de great Guyascutis, de unknown monster of Central Mexico, wen he foresee he's wictim.”—here he expanded his mouth hideously and uttered a deep roar.

   • 1889, The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review - Volume 3, page 382:

     The President touched the button, there was a deep reverberation from a cannon placed in front of the house, rockets were exploded, chains began to rattle, the gas went out, the "guyascutis" howled and the " whangdoodle " mourned.

   • 1892, The New Review - Volume 7, page 124:

     Eye of mortal man had never looked on Artemus's guyascutis; it was only heard of, like Madame Benoiton.

   • 1902, The Free Thought Magazine - Volume 20, page 281:

     But to resume : I started out to say that it is better to be fish, flesh, or fowl, that pickled guyascutis.

   • 1904, Herbert Winslow Collingwood, The Business Hen: (a New Brood)., page 114:

     Now I rise to say that if there is anywhere in these United States any old dunghill, scaly-legged, blear-eyed, frosted-combed, roach-backed, crooked-breasted, twisted-toed apology for a hen, that with relative good care won't pay an annual profit on her market value of more than 33 per cent then she ought to be exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition along with the “rara avis” and the “guyascutis” as the biggest curiosity in the show.