cuckoobudとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

cuckoo-bud

名詞

cuckoobud (plural cuckoobuds)

1. (obsolete) A buttercup.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     When Dasies pied, and Violets blew,
     And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew:

参照

• “cuckoobud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.