dabchick

English

Etymology

From dab (“dive, dip, dabble”) +‎ chick.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dabchick (plural dabchicks)

1. A small grebe, little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis).
   • 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 396:

     Once there was a moment where the sun beat through the fog, and they discovered they were surrounded on all sides by dabchicks whinnying and diving.

Derived terms

• New Zealand dabchick

Translations

type of bird

Bulgarian: малък гмурец (malǎk gmurec) Catalan: cabusset (ca) m Finnish: pikku-uikku (fi) French: grèbe castagneux (fr) m German: Zwergtaucher (de) m Greek: Ancient: κίγκλος m (kínklos) Irish: lapairín locha m, spágaire tonn m Italian: tuffetto (it) m Maori: taihoropī, weweia, taratimoho, tokitoki, tokitokipia, tokitokipio, totokipia, totokipio, tongitongipia, totoipio, whirowhiro Polish: perkozek (pl) m, perkozek zwyczajny m Russian: ма́лая пога́нка f (málaja pogánka) Spanish: zampullín chico m

References

• “dabchick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• dabchick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia