英语词汇zon-gun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Zon-gun. Here’s a new word from the vineyard county of Long Island’s North Fork area, a word that hasn’t been recorded in any of the big dictionaries, or any dictionary at all so far as I know. A Zon-gun is a big gun timed to go off at intervals in vineyards, its sound scaring birds away from ripening grapes. Since the loud guns are sometimes set to go off every 20 sec- onds for the entire day, seven days a week, their use is not ap- preciated by neighboring homeowners, who haven’t failed to express their displeasure. Some vineyards have turned to net- ting their grapes, but Zon-guns (also called birdguns) are much cheaper, costing only about twelve cents a day to operate each, and many growers still use them.

词汇	zon-gun
词源	Zon-gun. Here’s a new word from the vineyard county of Long Island’s North Fork area, a word that hasn’t been recorded in any of the big dictionaries, or any dictionary at all so far as I know. A Zon-gun is a big gun timed to go off at intervals in vineyards, its sound scaring birds away from ripening grapes. Since the loud guns are sometimes set to go off every 20 sec- onds for the entire day, seven days a week, their use is not ap- preciated by neighboring homeowners, who haven’t failed to express their displeasure. Some vineyards have turned to net- ting their grapes, but Zon-guns (also called birdguns) are much cheaper, costing only about twelve cents a day to operate each, and many growers still use them.
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