- road-runner (n.)
[road-runner 词源字典]
- "long-tailed crested desert cuckoo," 1847, American English, from road (n.) + runner. Earliest references give the Mexican Spanish name for it as correcamino and the English name might be a translation of that. The Warner Bros. cartoon character dates to 1948.[road-runner etymology, road-runner origin, 英语词源]