- hoopoe[hoopoe 词源字典]
- hoopoe: see dupe
[hoopoe etymology, hoopoe origin, 英语词源] - hoopoe (n.)
- 1660s, from Latin upupa, imitative of its cry (compare Greek epops "hoopoe").
If anybody smears himself with the blood of this bird on his way to bed, he will have nightmares about suffocating devils. [Cambridge bestiary, 12c.]