| 词源 |
clicketing. In days past, people had more names for natural things than we can imagine today. Clicketing—not slang, but standard English—means “the copulation of foxes” and has been used in this sense since the late 16th century or before. This is perhaps a distinct word from clicket, meaning “to chat- ter,” the first recorded use of it explaining: “When a bytche foxe goeth on clycqueting . . . she cryeth with a hollow voyce like unto the howling of a madde dogge . . .” The term is also ap- plied to the wolf. |