mauve

Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.


man-of-war

Samoan Plantation Pidgin: manua

Tok Pisin: manua

→ Dhivehi: މަނަވަރު (manavaru)

→ Swahili: manowari

Chatto & Windus
Isla Contoy
National Maritime Museum

From Late Middle English man of wer, man of werre (“fighting man, soldier”). It has been suggested that sense 2 (“powerful armed naval vessel”) derives from the fact that such vessels were manned by men-of-war (“soldiers”; sense 1).

any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds for their food

not used in Finnish (no equivalent collective term; see the translation tables below)

[H]ee is firſt broken to the Sea in the Herring mans Skiffe or Cockboate, vvhere hauing learned to brooke all vvaters, and drinke as he can out of a tarrie Canne, and eate poore Iohn out of ſvvuttie platters vvhen he may get it vvithout butter or muſtard, there is no ho vvith him but once hartned thus, hee vvill needes be a man of vvarre, or a Tobaco taker, and vveare a ſiluer VVhiſtle.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 27:

(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.

(obsolete, rare) In full man-of-war's-man: a sailor serving on board an armed naval vessel.

magnificent frigatebird
magnificent frigatebird

Fregata magnificens
Fregata magnificens#Translingual

Short for man-of-war bird or (obsolete) man-of-war hawk: any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food.

(specifically, archaic) A frigatebird (family Fregatidae), especially the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens).

Stercorarius parasiticus
Stercorarius parasiticus#Translingual

(specifically, US) The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

военен

man fighting in a war — see also soldier, warrior

But there is a Bird they call, a Man of vvar, and he is much bigger than a Heron, and flies out to Sea upon diſcoveries, (for they never light upon the Sea) to ſee vvhat ſhips are comming to the Iland; and vvhen they return the Ilanders look out, and ſay, A ſhip is comming, and finde it true.

1657, Richard Ligon, “[Birds]”, in A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, page 61:

man-of-war bird or

Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese man-of-war#English

Physalia physalis
Physalia physalis#Translingual

Short for Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”)


common gull

/ˈkɒmən ˌɡʌl/

/ˈkɑːmən ˌɡʌl/


gull

Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish goolan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *wēlannā (“seagull”).
Cognate with Old Irish faílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).

The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

1947 January–February, O. S. Nock, “‘The Aberdonian’ in Wartime”, in The Railway Magazine, volume 93, number 567, page 8:

Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

1970, Richard Bach, “Part One”, in Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, Macmillan; republished as complete edition, Scribner, 2014 October 21, →ISBN, page 4:

A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.


sarnie

From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.

suffix

perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">sandwich</i>


鴎

鴎 (canonical)
鴎 (canonical)
kamome (romanization)

Extended shinjitai
black-legged kittiwake
ja:カモメ
pomarine skua

Uncertain. One theory suggests from 鴨(かも) (kamo, “duck”) + め (-me, suffix expressing familiarity).
Compare 雀 (suzume, “sparrow”) and 燕 (tsubame, “swallow”).


鷗

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoː): phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).


鵜

鵜 (canonical)
鵜 (canonical)
u (romanization)

Possibly onomatopoeia of the bird's cry.

a cormorant (seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae)


laughing gull

A common European gull (Xema ridibundus).

Leucophaeus atricilla
Leucophaeus atricilla#Translingual

An American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla); in summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.


scarecrow

/ˈskɛɚˌkɹoʊ/

The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows).
The verb is derived from the noun.

compound

(British, dialectal, obsolete)
The black tern (Chlidonias niger).

Chlidonias niger
Chlidonias niger#Translingual


tern

Via an East Anglian dialect, from some Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, related to Danish terne, Norwegian terne, and Swedish tärna, all from Old Norse þerna (“tern; maidservant”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“handmaid, young girl”). First attested in the 1670s.

der

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.


tern

PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Late Middle English terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).
The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.

der

(dated or obsolete) A thing with three components; a set of three things.

And yet, now even, if Madonna willed, / She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery, / And better all things.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 319:

(gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.


tern

tern flowers tern leaves

a tern schooner, one with three masts

(chiefly botany, rare) Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.


petrel

→ French: pétrel
→ Italian: petrello

→ Spanish: petrel
→ Catalan: petrell

From earlier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).
A derivation from patter or pitter-patter has been suggested, for instance by ornithologist Elliott Ladd Coues.

The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, The Relation of Captaine GOSNOLS Voyage to the North part of Virginia, begunne the sixe and twentieth of March, Anno 42. ELIZABETHAE Reginae 1602. and delivered by GABRIEL ARCHER, a Gentleman in the said Voyage:

In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they fly (gently then) they pat the water alternately with their feet as if they walked upon it; though still upon the wing. And from hence the seamen give them the name of petrels in allusion to St. Peter's walking upon the Lake of Gennesareth.

1703, William Dampier, chapter III, in A Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699:

Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.


petrel

petrei (plural)
petrel (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
petrelul (accusative definite nominative singular)
petrei (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
petreii (accusative definite nominative plural)
petrel (indefinite singular)
petrelului (definite singular)
petrei (indefinite plural)
petreilor (definite plural)
petrelule (singular vocative)
petreilor (plural vocative)


petrel

→ Catalan: petrell

Borrowed from English petrel or French pétrel.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię


witch

The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer, warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more.
The verb is from the noun.

cog

One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.

(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.


cob

en-noun

cob (countable and uncountable, plural cobs)

Of uncertain origin. The word has many disparate senses, which are likely of diverse origin. The specifics of these origins have long been debated, as has the question of which senses arise from which origins. At least the swan sense originated in Middle English cobbe (“male swan; gang leader; bully”). Some other senses likely originated as a variant of cop (“head, top, peak, summit”). In other senses, the word may be related to cub, itself of obscure origin but possibly from Old Norse kobbi (“seal”). However, many alternative etymologies have been proposed to account for some or all senses of cob; various sources have related it, for example, to English cot (“cottage”), Welsh cob (“top, tuft”), or German Kübel (“large container”). All these etymologies are disputed, and the exact origins of cob cannot be known with any certainty.

inh

Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.

1668, Thomas Browne, "Notes on Certain Birds Found in Norfolk", in Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk, Jarrold & Sons (1902), pages 8–9

On Saturday the 28th we saw a whale, two sea-wolves, and two penguins; in the afternoon there appeared great numbers of ospreys, and sea-cobs, and we met with some sea-grass, with long leaves.

1773, Antoine-Joseph Pernety, The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland), page 178:

We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our larus ribibundus….

1820, Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (tr.), Travels in Brazil (in New Voyages and Travels, volume III), translation of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien (1817), page 21

The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.

1895, A Son of the Marshes [Denham Jordan], The Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl of Great Britain, Chapman and Hall, page 312

Larus marinus
Larus marinus#Translingual

(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

…he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….

1701, Daniel Mac-Cay, testimony in the trial of Patrick Hurly, transcribed in A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 5, 2nd edition (1730), page 404

They fancied, that he who sold a Stone of Wool for Two Cobs, callid 9s. when Cobs were raised would sell his Stone for a Cob and a half when called 9s.

1718, Observations on raising the value of money, page 4:

As this sum was greater than ever Swift had been master of at any one time before, he pushed over, without reckoning them, a good number of the siver cobs (for it was all in that specie) to the honest sailor, and desired he would accept them for his trouble.

1774, J. Hawkesworth, “An Account of the life of Dr. Swift”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, page xx:

He then drew out a large leathern bag, and poured out the contents, which were ſilver cobs, upon the table.

1784, Thomas Sheridan, The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, volume I, pages 7–8:

Our fituation every day appears more alarming, there being a scarcity of almost every thing in the garrison — fire-wood a cob per hundred; flour five rials per pound; no fresh meat except an old cow, or worn-out ox, (only one perhaps killed in a month) which is sold at four and a half and five rials per pound; fowls twenty to twenty-four rials each; a goose ten dollars; a turkey twenty dollars; eggs a cob the dozen; and every other necessary in proporition.

1793, Samuel Ancell, A circumstantial journal of the blockade and siege of Gibraltar, page 24:

Several of the artillery officers, the Welch fusileers, and a few navy officers, spent the evening at a tavern, well known by the name of Miss Loftus's; on payment of our reckoning, Captain Wilcox was deficient a cob (value about four shillings and ninepence) the payment of which, was offered to him by a Mr. Funston, a lieutenant fireworker;

1795, Mark Moore, The Memoirs and Adventures of Mark Moore Late an Officer in the British Navy, page 49:

It’s absolutely possible to find an affordable ($20-$35) low to average circulated Spanish silver cob dated around or before 1692, especially if you’re willing to settle for the smaller half real or one real cobs.

2006, Todd Cook, The Lost Coins of Early Americans: Still A Secret!, Xulon Press,, →ISBN, page 90:

Cobs were usually irregularly shaped. They were a means to account for a specific amount of silver in a coin that could be used for commerce.

2008, Alvin Rabushka, Taxation in Colonial America, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 154:

Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.


lire

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.

(UK dialectal, Scotland) The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.


lire

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer.

cog

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.


lire

From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira.

(UK dialectal, Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, ornithology) The Manx shearwater (bird).


glutton

From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.


stern

nl-noun

stern m (plural sterns or sternen, diminutive sterntje n)

sterns (plural)
sternen (plural)
sterntje (diminutive neuter)

Possibly cognate with Latin sturnus (“starling”).


pelican

From Middle English pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán),
πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”).

The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:

Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:

Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.

laradash

any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae


pelican

pelicani (plural)
pelican (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
pelicanul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pelicani (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
pelicanii (accusative definite nominative plural)
pelican (indefinite singular)
pelicanului (definite singular)
pelicani (indefinite plural)
pelicanilor (definite plural)
pelicanule (singular vocative)
pelicanilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French pélican, from Latin pelicānus. Compare Aromanian pilican.

pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)


pelican

pelicanod (plural)
pelican
belican (soft)
mhelican
phelican

pelican (seabird of the family Pelecanidae)


albatros

From English albatross, probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of the Latin word albus (“white”).

der

an albatross; any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings


albatros

albatros (nominative singular)
albatrosi (nominative plural)
albatrosové (nominative plural)
albatrosa (genitive singular)
albatrosů (genitive plural)
albatrosovi (dative singular)
albatrosu (dative singular)
albatrosům (dative plural)
albatrosa (accusative singular)
albatrosy (accusative plural)
albatrose (singular vocative)
albatrosi (plural vocative)
albatrosové (plural vocative)
albatrosovi (locative singular)
albatrosu (locative singular)
albatrosech (locative plural)
albatrosem (instrumental singular)
albatrosy (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from English albatross which is probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”).


albatros

head

albatros c (singular definite albatrossen, plural indefinite albatrosser)

albatrossen (definite singular)
albatrosser (indefinite plural)
albatros (indefinite nominative singular)
albatrossen (definite nominative singular)
albatrosser (indefinite nominative plural)
albatrosserne (definite nominative plural)
albatros' (genitive indefinite singular)
albatrossens (definite genitive singular)
albatrossers (genitive indefinite plural)
albatrossernes (definite genitive plural)

(golf) an albatross or double eagle (a score of three strokes under par for a hole)


albatros

nl-noun

albatros m (plural albatrossen, diminutive albatrosje n)

albatrossen (plural)
albatrosje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from English albatross, from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz.

albatross, seabird of the family Diomedeidae


albatros

albatros (nominative singular)
albatrosy (nominative plural)
albatrosa (genitive singular)
albatrosów (genitive plural)
albatrosowi (dative singular)
albatrosom (dative plural)
albatrosa (accusative singular)
albatrosy (accusative plural)
albatrosem (instrumental singular)
albatrosami (instrumental plural)
albatrosie (locative singular)
albatrosach (locative plural)
albatrosie (singular vocative)
albatrosy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French albatros. First attested in 1801.

ref

Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse (1801) Podróż p. La Perouse na odkrycia nowych kraiów w latach 1785-1786 i 1788. T. 1 (in Polish), page 322

biały albatros

skrzydła albatrosa

albatross (any bird of the family Diomedeidae)


albatros

albatroși (plural)
albatros (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
albatrosul (accusative definite nominative singular)
albatroși (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
albatroșii (accusative definite nominative plural)
albatros (indefinite singular)
albatrosului (definite singular)
albatroși (indefinite plural)
albatroșilor (definite plural)
albatrosule (singular vocative)
albatroșilor (plural vocative)


albatros

sh-noun

àlbatros m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбатрос)

àlbatros (canonical masculine)
а̀лбатрос (Cyrillic)
albatros (nominative singular)
albatrosi (nominative plural)
albatrosa (genitive singular)
albatrosa (genitive plural)
albatrosu (dative singular)
albatrosima (dative plural)
albatrosa (accusative singular)
albatrose (accusative plural)
albatrose (singular vocative)
albatrosi (plural vocative)
albatrosu (locative singular)
albatrosima (locative plural)
albatrosom (instrumental singular)
albatrosima (instrumental plural)


albatros

Borrowed from English albatross, from Spanish and Portuguese alcatraz.


albatros

cy-noun

albatros m (plural albatrosiaid or albatrosod)

albatrosiaid (plural)
albatrosod (plural)
albatros
halbatros (prothesis-h)

Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd
w:Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd


scull

From Middle English sculle (“a type of oar”), of uncertain origin, possibly from North Germanic, from Old Norse skola (“to rinse, wash”).

A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.

рул

A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.


scull

See skull. The verb sense may derive from Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål.

The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:

A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.


gent

nl-noun

gent m (plural genten, diminutive gentje n)

genten (plural)
gentje (diminutive neuter)

De genten vormen een familie in de orde der Suliformes.

The Sulidae constitute a family in the Suliformes order.


prion

From Prion (former genus name), from Ancient Greek πρίων (príōn, “saw”).


fou

Derived from Spanish alfil, from Arabic اَلْفِيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.


murre

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

onomatopoeic

imitative

It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, page 252:

1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,
About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,
Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).

aráu

seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family


wandering albatross

en-noun

wandering albatross (plural wandering albatrosses)

‘Well, there are lots of different subspecies of them, but the wandering albatross sort of looks like a bigger, more aristocratic seagull, with webbed feet and giant gliding wings. They partner for life and can live up to fifty years. They fly enormous distances to get the right food for their young.’

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 228:

Diomedea exulans
Diomedea exulans#Translingual

A large seabird, Diomedea exulans, with a very large wingspread.


spur

en-verb

spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)

spurs (present singular third-person)
spurring (participle present)
spurred (participle past)
spurred (past)

From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).

to spur boots

(intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.


lundi

fo-noun

lundi m (genitive singular lunda, plural lundar)

lunda (genitive singular)
lundar (plural)
lundi (indefinite nominative singular)
lundin (definite nominative singular)
lundar (indefinite nominative plural)
lundarnir (definite nominative plural)
lunda (accusative indefinite singular)
lundan (accusative definite singular)
lundar (accusative indefinite plural)
lundarnar (accusative definite plural)
lunda (dative indefinite singular)
lundanum (dative definite singular)
lundum (dative indefinite plural)
lundunum (dative definite plural)
lunda (genitive indefinite singular)
lundans (definite genitive singular)
lunda (genitive indefinite plural)
lundanna (definite genitive plural)

Fratercula arctica
Fratercula arctica#Translingual


lundi

is-noun

lundi m (genitive singular lunda, nominative plural lundar)

lunda (genitive singular)
lundar (nominative plural)
lundi (indefinite nominative singular)
lundinn (definite nominative singular)
lundar (indefinite nominative plural)
lundarnir (definite nominative plural)
lunda (accusative indefinite singular)
lundann (accusative definite singular)
lunda (accusative indefinite plural)
lundana (accusative definite plural)
lunda (dative indefinite singular)
lundanum (dative definite singular)
lundum (dative indefinite plural)
lundunum (dative definite plural)
lunda (genitive indefinite singular)
lundans (definite genitive singular)
lunda (genitive indefinite plural)
lundanna (definite genitive plural)


lundi

lunda (genitive)
lundar (plural)
lundi (indefinite nominative singular)
lundinn (definite nominative singular)
lundar (indefinite nominative plural)
lundarnir (definite nominative plural)
lunda (accusative indefinite singular)
lundann (accusative definite singular)
lunda (accusative indefinite plural)
lundana (accusative definite plural)
lunda (dative indefinite singular)
lundanum (dative definite singular)
lundum (dative indefinite plural)
lundunum (dative definite plural)
lunda (genitive indefinite singular)
lundans (definite genitive singular)
lunda (genitive indefinite plural)
lundanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

lundi

Norwegian Bokmål: lunde


alcatraz

→ Arabic: قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”)

Borrowed from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”).


alcatraz

Borrowed from Arabic الْقِرْطَاس (al-qirṭās, “the papyrus”).


guano

en-noun

guano (countable and uncountable, plural guanos or guanoes)

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

The guano, so extensively used for manure, is full of the most beautiful infusoria, some of them splendidly iridiscent; and there is no better method of testing the genuineness of this useful substance than by the microscope.

1799, Edwin Sidney, Blights of the Wheat, and Their Remedies, page 175:

In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.

1844, J. Ridgway, Peruvian and Bolivian Guano, its nature, properties and results, page 22:

Low-grade phosphatic guanos can be mixed with coffee hulls and pulp, which contain a small amount of potash.

1918, Philip Lindsey Gile, The bat guanos of Porto Rico and their fertilizing value, page 60:

The great white bat has great white guano!


shag

en-verb

shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)

shags (present singular third-person)
shagging (participle present)
shagged (participle past)
shagged (past)

From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.

der

And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.


shag

Unknown. Perhaps a derivative of Etymology 1, above, with reference to the bird's shaggy crest.

He ran back and picked up a dead bird that had fallen. It was not a duck but a shag.

1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 7:

Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Phalacrocorax aristotelis#Translingual

Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.


shag

From Middle English schaggen, a variant of Middle English schoggen (“to shake; shake off; tremble”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a byform of Middle English schokken (“to shake; move rapidly”), related to Middle Low German schokken (“to shake; tremble”). Alternatively, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skakkōną (“to shake”), specifically continuing a post-Proto-Germanic variant *skagg-, where the non-singular stem *skag- caused the analogical replacement of the stem-final voiceless geminate consonants with voiced geminates, which was then leveled throughout the paradigm.

cog

Lizzy is a shag extraordinaire, but has a tongue like a sailor and a castrating stare.

1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Cock Problems”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 87:

'It turned out that it was me who was just a shag to him. He had a girlfriend I didn't know about. He presumed I was up for some no-strings action. And the thing is, I thought I was – in theory. But in practice, I realized that I wasn't.'

2003, Freya North, Pip, Harper, published 2003, →ISBN:

"Was I just another shag to you, Trace? Someone to bed when the offer came?"

2008, Bruce Cooke, Trace Elements, Eternal Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 56:

'Your favourite shag?' I ask her.
'Martin Kershen.'
'He was a sexy beast.'

2011, Wes Lee, “Saul”, in Zoe Dattner, Louise Swinn, editors, The Sleepers Almanac, No. 7, Sleepers Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:

(slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.


cormorant

/ˈkɔːməɹənt/

/ˈkɔɹməɹənt/

PIE word
 *ḱorh₂wós
From Middle English cormeraunt (“great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”) [and other forms], from Old French cormaran, cor-maraunt [and other forms] (modern French cormoran), possibly variants of *corp-marin, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”), with the ending -morant possibly derived from French moran (“marine, maritime”), from Breton mor (“sea”), with -an corrupted in English to -ant. Latin corvus is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós (“raven”), which is imitative of the harsh cry of the bird; while marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea, marine”) is from Latin mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea; standing water”), possibly from *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
cognates
* Catalan corbmari
* Occitan corpmari
* Portuguese corvomarinho

nb...

cormaraunt, cormaraunte, cormerant, cormerante, cormeraunte, cormerawnt, cormerawnte, cormirand, cormirande, cormoraunt, kormorount

der

Th' Eele-murthering Hearne, and greedy Cormorant, / That neare the Creekes in moriſh Marſhes haunt.

1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 27:

Thence up he [Satan] flew, and on the Tree of Life, / The middle Tree and higheſt there that grew, / Sat like a Cormorant; […]

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 194-196:

The cormorant on high / VVheels from the deep, and ſcreams along the land.

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 170, lines 144–145:

I may mention, that I one day observed a cormorant playing with a fish which it had caught. Eight times successively the bird let its prey go, then dived after it, and although in deep water, brought it each time to the surface. […] I do not know of any other instance where dame Nature appears so wilfully cruel.

1839, Charles Darwin, chapter XII, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 256:

These pictures were in water colours. […] One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; […]

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 242:

The strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has quite restored me. I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter IX, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 117:

A man was swimming out towards them, his flailing arms black and defined in the heat-hazy radiance as the wings of a cormorant that skimmed the water.

1987, Nadine Gordimer, “Intelligence”, in A Sport of Nature […] (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 139:

Phalacrocorax carbo
Phalacrocorax carbo#Translingual

Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).


auk

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian:

Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.


cobb

A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.

A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.


gannet

From Middle English ganet, gante, from Old English ganot, from Proto-West Germanic *ganat, *ganatō, from Proto-Germanic *ganatuz, *ganutô (“gander”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *ganzô.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gent, Middle Low German gante, German Ganter, Ganser, all “gander, male goose”.

Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.


puffin

From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The White Seal”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 110:

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.


mew

From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw, from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe; akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).

A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

From helm to sea they saw him leap, / As arrow from the string, / And dive into the water deep, / As mew upon the wing.

1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

(archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.


mew

From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).

(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.


mew

en-verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

mews (present singular third-person)
mewing (participle present)
mewed (participle past)
mewed (past)

More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall
Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;

c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre”, in Charles M. Coffin, editor, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, page 84:

1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,
[…] Nay some have learn’d the trick
To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,
Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:

When it came to his turn to mention Sir John Sparkle, he represented him as a man of an immense estate and narrow disposition, who mewed up his only child, a fine young lady, from the conversation of mankind, under the strict watch and inspection of an old governante, who was either so honest, envious, or insatiable, that nobody had been as yet able to make her a friend, or get access to her charge, though numbers attempted it every day […]

1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 50, in The Adventures of Roderick Random.:

[…] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]

1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

(archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.


taring

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.


hag

From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

1845, Edward Fairfax (tr.), Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done into English Heroical Verse, page 168:

(Northern England) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.


scout

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.

der

A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter I, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:

(Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.

Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University; Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University

(historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.


scout

From Middle English scoute, skoute (also schoute, shoute, schuyt), from Middle Low German schûte or Middle Dutch schute; or possibly from Old Norse skúta (“a small craft or cutter”).

So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.

1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry 18th May 1660:


seagull

From sea + gull. The second element is from a Brythonic language. Compare Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.

And while there are plenty of benches, there's little shelter from the wind (or predatory seagulls the size of dogs) out on the platforms.

2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:

Any of several white, often dark-backed birds of the family Laridae having long, pointed wings and short legs.

(UK, slang) A fan or member of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.


seagull

en-verb

seagull (third-person singular simple present seagulls, present participle seagulling, simple past and past participle seagulled)

seagulls (present singular third-person)
seagulling (participle present)
seagulled (participle past)
seagulled (past)

[…] and when you need cover for the fullback because of the bombs raining down, when the walking maul requires every forward to quit seagulling and actually do some hard graft, then the rest of the game opens up.

2002 September 24, Greig Blanchett, “Re: The Immorality of the Drop Goal”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):

On hand was seagulling number eight Dave Hodges to cross for the all-important try.

2002 December 13, “Sharks beached at Stradey”, in BBC Sport:

That occurred in the 12th minute when flanker George Smith, seagulling out wide, enjoyed the rewards of a two-man overlap to score.

2003 November 2, Greg Growden, “Australia survives scare”, in The Age:

France was full of running and continued to spread the ball wide or kick in behind the defence, where towering right-winger Aurelien Rougerie and the seagulling French back row had a height advantage contesting the high ball.

2003 November 10, Mark Fuller, “Impeccable France outclasses Ireland”, in The Age:

Samo seagulled for Australia's final try two minutes from time.

2011 September 24, Darren Walton, “Injuries sour Wallabies 67-5 win over USA”, in MSN NZ:

(British, Australia, New Zealand, rugby slang, of a forward) To run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play.

It should be considered a style of outboarding I believe. Seagulling arround^([sic]) and all.

2007 December 19, Douglas Eagleson, “Re: british seagull info request”, in rec.boats.cruising (Usenet):

(boating slang) To use a British Seagull outboard.


pearl

en-noun

pearl (countable and uncountable, plural pearls)

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
en:pearl
en:pearl (disambiguation)
en:pearl (typography)

From Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.

der

Errol. Pearl three Escutcheons Ruby. / Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz.

1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:

The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. The Armes of the most Noble and Puissant Lord, Edward Brabazon, Earl of Meath, and Baron of Atherdee in the Kingdom of Ireland. His Lordship's Atchievements are Quarterly of sixteen Coats. 1. Brabazon, as above. 2. Diamond, on a Chevron between three Pickaxes Pearl, as many Mullets Ruby, by the Name of Mosley. 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset. 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz.

1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:

(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks.

1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:

(heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.


nelly

Macronectes giganteus
Macronectes giganteus#Translingual

Macronectes halli
Macronectes halli#Translingual

A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.


albatross

en-noun

albatross (plural albatross or albatrosses)

Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.
For sense development of "burden", see albatross around one’s neck.

der

Albatross (disambiguation)
albatross (metaphor)

Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.


zafferano

Borrowed from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān).

bor+

lesser black-backed gull
lesser black-backed gull


stinker

Today's crossword is a stinker.

I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. […] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.

western grey kangaroo
western grey kangaroo

(Australia, informal) A western grey kangaroo.


titi

A New World monkey of the genus Callicebus, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur.


titi

A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes.


boatswain-bird

Phaethon aethereus
Phaethon aethereus#Translingual

A tropical bird, Phaethon aethereus, often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.


boatswain

From Middle English botswain, botswein, bote-swayn, from late Old English bātsweġen, from bāt (“boat”) + sweġen (“swain”), the latter element a borrowing from Old Norse sveinn (“boy”); equivalent to boat + swain (“boy, servant”).

The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.


booby

17th century. From Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).

At which time, ſome Boobyes, weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ſo ſimple as ſuffers any to take her without feare, as if a ſtupid ſenſe made her careleſſe of danger...

1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:

We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds—the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gannet, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer.

1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter I, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.

A booby may displace another booby or a bridged ball by roquet, ricochet, or concussion.

1863, Mayne Reid, Croquet, London: C.J. Skeet, page 33:

In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.


booby

en-adj

booby (comparative more booby, superlative most booby)

more booby (comparative)
most booby (superlative)

When we arrived at the houſe, I was in the utmoſt confuſion; for the booby ſervants ſtood gaping and grinning at my diſtreſs, and Sir Sampſson himſelf told me, with a laugh as horrible as Caliban's, that he would lend me one of his maids to carry me out airing every morning.

1755 January 23, The Connoisseur, 3rd edition, volume 2, number 52, published 1757, page 131:

(slang, obsolete) Stupid; unintelligent.


booby

booby (comparative boobier, superlative boobiest)

boobier (comparative)
boobiest (superlative)

If it's too tight, I don't want the fat coming out heeya?' She points to the danger spot, where upper arm brushes against glorious bosom, and the top of a strapless dress can cut an unsightly line. 'Am I very booby? Do I look very chesty?'

2001, Helen Garner, The Feel of Steel, Picador Australia, →ISBN, page 221:

We did a photoshoot the week before and she took the dress from the shoot and said: "I want to wear this for the awards next week. Her publicist was like, "Don't you think it's a bit 'booby' for a kids event?" But she wore it anyway!'

2011 March 31, Jo Berry, Katy Perry: California Gurl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Everyone has their paranoias. And we all chip in, swap handbags and jewellery, and offer lots of support when one or another is having doubts about their frock.
'Wow, you look amazing!'
'Aw, I think I look a bit booby.'
'I don't like my bra.'

2017 March 9, Kate Garraway, The Joy of Big Knickers: (or learning to love the rest of your life), Bonnier Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:

I put on boxer shorts and a strappy baby-doll dress that floated from my ribs comfortably. It was a bit booby. Leftover pre-period bloat, I guess.

2021 August 24, Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Jamilah at the End of the World, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 66:

(informal, of clothing or a person) Displaying breasts prominently.


zarcillo

From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.

Larosterna inca
Larosterna inca#Translingual


pulcinella di mare

After its appearance, said to resemble that of theatrical character Pulcinella.


cuttie

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(colloquial) A T-shirt that has had the sleeves removed.


Albatros

de-noun

Albatros m (strong, genitive Albatros, plural Albatrosse)

Albatros (genitive)
Albatrosse (plural)
Albatros (nominative singular)
Albatrosse (definite nominative plural)
Albatros (genitive singular)
Albatrosse (definite genitive plural)
Albatros (dative singular)
Albatrossen (dative definite plural)
Albatros (accusative singular)
Albatrosse (accusative definite plural)


seabird

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Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.

seevoël

any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters


tinker

(US)

From Middle English tynkere, perhaps from Old English *tincere, from tin (“tin”) + *cere, as in bēocere (“beekeeper”).

if ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

(dated, chiefly British and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.


tiira

tiira (nominative singular)
tiirat (nominative plural)
tiira (accusative nominative singular)
tiirat (accusative nominative plural)
tiiran (accusative genitive singular)
tiirat (accusative genitive plural)
tiiran (genitive singular)
tiirojen (genitive plural)
tiirain (genitive plural rare)
tiiraa (partitive singular)
tiiroja (partitive plural)
tiirassa (inessive singular)
tiiroissa (inessive plural)
tiirasta (elative singular)
tiiroista (elative plural)
tiiraan (illative singular)
tiiroihin (illative plural)
tiiralla (adessive singular)
tiiroilla (adessive plural)
tiiralta (ablative singular)
tiiroilta (ablative plural)
tiiralle (allative singular)
tiiroille (allative plural)
tiirana (essive singular)
tiiroina (essive plural)
tiiraksi (singular translative)
tiiroiksi (plural translative)
tiiratta (abessive singular)
tiiroitta (abessive plural)
tiiroin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tiirani (nominative singular)
tiirani (nominative plural)
tiirani (accusative nominative singular)
tiirani (accusative nominative plural)
tiirani (accusative genitive singular)
tiirani (accusative genitive plural)
tiirani (genitive singular)
tiirojeni (genitive plural)
tiiraini (genitive plural rare)
tiiraani (partitive singular)
tiirojani (partitive plural)
tiirassani (inessive singular)
tiiroissani (inessive plural)
tiirastani (elative singular)
tiiroistani (elative plural)
tiiraani (illative singular)
tiiroihini (illative plural)
tiirallani (adessive singular)
tiiroillani (adessive plural)
tiiraltani (ablative singular)
tiiroiltani (ablative plural)
tiiralleni (allative singular)
tiiroilleni (allative plural)
tiiranani (essive singular)
tiiroinani (essive plural)
tiirakseni (singular translative)
tiiroikseni (plural translative)
tiirattani (abessive singular)
tiiroittani (abessive plural)
tiiroineni (comitative plural)
tiirasi (nominative singular)
tiirasi (nominative plural)
tiirasi (accusative nominative singular)
tiirasi (accusative nominative plural)
tiirasi (accusative genitive singular)
tiirasi (accusative genitive plural)
tiirasi (genitive singular)
tiirojesi (genitive plural)
tiiraisi (genitive plural rare)
tiiraasi (partitive singular)
tiirojasi (partitive plural)
tiirassasi (inessive singular)
tiiroissasi (inessive plural)
tiirastasi (elative singular)
tiiroistasi (elative plural)
tiiraasi (illative singular)
tiiroihisi (illative plural)
tiirallasi (adessive singular)
tiiroillasi (adessive plural)
tiiraltasi (ablative singular)
tiiroiltasi (ablative plural)
tiirallesi (allative singular)
tiiroillesi (allative plural)
tiiranasi (essive singular)
tiiroinasi (essive plural)
tiiraksesi (singular translative)
tiiroiksesi (plural translative)
tiirattasi (abessive singular)
tiiroittasi (abessive plural)
tiiroinesi (comitative plural)
tiiramme (nominative singular)
tiiramme (nominative plural)
tiiramme (accusative nominative singular)
tiiramme (accusative nominative plural)
tiiramme (accusative genitive singular)
tiiramme (accusative genitive plural)
tiiramme (genitive singular)
tiirojemme (genitive plural)
tiiraimme (genitive plural rare)
tiiraamme (partitive singular)
tiirojamme (partitive plural)
tiirassamme (inessive singular)
tiiroissamme (inessive plural)
tiirastamme (elative singular)
tiiroistamme (elative plural)
tiiraamme (illative singular)
tiiroihimme (illative plural)
tiirallamme (adessive singular)
tiiroillamme (adessive plural)
tiiraltamme (ablative singular)
tiiroiltamme (ablative plural)
tiirallemme (allative singular)
tiiroillemme (allative plural)
tiiranamme (essive singular)
tiiroinamme (essive plural)
tiiraksemme (singular translative)
tiiroiksemme (plural translative)
tiirattamme (abessive singular)
tiiroittamme (abessive plural)
tiiroinemme (comitative plural)
tiiranne (nominative singular)
tiiranne (nominative plural)
tiiranne (accusative nominative singular)
tiiranne (accusative nominative plural)
tiiranne (accusative genitive singular)
tiiranne (accusative genitive plural)
tiiranne (genitive singular)
tiirojenne (genitive plural)
tiirainne (genitive plural rare)
tiiraanne (partitive singular)
tiirojanne (partitive plural)
tiirassanne (inessive singular)
tiiroissanne (inessive plural)
tiirastanne (elative singular)
tiiroistanne (elative plural)
tiiraanne (illative singular)
tiiroihinne (illative plural)
tiirallanne (adessive singular)
tiiroillanne (adessive plural)
tiiraltanne (ablative singular)
tiiroiltanne (ablative plural)
tiirallenne (allative singular)
tiiroillenne (allative plural)
tiirananne (essive singular)
tiiroinanne (essive plural)
tiiraksenne (singular translative)
tiiroiksenne (plural translative)
tiirattanne (abessive singular)
tiiroittanne (abessive plural)
tiiroinenne (comitative plural)
tiiransa (nominative singular)
tiiransa (nominative plural)
tiiransa (accusative nominative singular)
tiiransa (accusative nominative plural)
tiiransa (accusative genitive singular)
tiiransa (accusative genitive plural)
tiiransa (genitive singular)
tiirojensa (genitive plural)
tiirainsa (genitive plural rare)
tiiraansa (partitive singular)
tiirojaan (partitive plural)
tiirojansa (partitive plural)
tiirassaan (inessive singular)
tiirassansa (inessive singular)
tiiroissaan (inessive plural)
tiiroissansa (inessive plural)
tiirastaan (elative singular)
tiirastansa (elative singular)
tiiroistaan (elative plural)
tiiroistansa (elative plural)
tiiraansa (illative singular)
tiiroihinsa (illative plural)
tiirallaan (adessive singular)
tiirallansa (adessive singular)
tiiroillaan (adessive plural)
tiiroillansa (adessive plural)
tiiraltaan (ablative singular)
tiiraltansa (ablative singular)
tiiroiltaan (ablative plural)
tiiroiltansa (ablative plural)
tiiralleen (allative singular)
tiirallensa (allative singular)
tiiroilleen (allative plural)
tiiroillensa (allative plural)
tiiranaan (essive singular)
tiiranansa (essive singular)
tiiroinaan (essive plural)
tiiroinansa (essive plural)
tiirakseen (singular translative)
tiiraksensa (singular translative)
tiiroikseen (plural translative)
tiiroiksensa (plural translative)
tiirattaan (abessive singular)
tiirattansa (abessive singular)
tiiroittaan (abessive plural)
tiiroittansa (abessive plural)
tiiroineen (comitative plural)
tiiroinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *tiira, of onomatopoeic origin.

tern (bird in the subfamily Terninae of family Laridae - gulls and terns)


lokki

lokki (nominative singular)
lokit (nominative plural)
lokki (accusative nominative singular)
lokit (accusative nominative plural)
lokin (accusative genitive singular)
lokit (accusative genitive plural)
lokin (genitive singular)
lokkien (genitive plural)
lokkia (partitive singular)
lokkeja (partitive plural)
lokissa (inessive singular)
lokeissa (inessive plural)
lokista (elative singular)
lokeista (elative plural)
lokkiin (illative singular)
lokkeihin (illative plural)
lokilla (adessive singular)
lokeilla (adessive plural)
lokilta (ablative singular)
lokeilta (ablative plural)
lokille (allative singular)
lokeille (allative plural)
lokkina (essive singular)
lokkeina (essive plural)
lokiksi (singular translative)
lokeiksi (plural translative)
lokitta (abessive singular)
lokeitta (abessive plural)
lokein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lokkini (nominative singular)
lokkini (nominative plural)
lokkini (accusative nominative singular)
lokkini (accusative nominative plural)
lokkini (accusative genitive singular)
lokkini (accusative genitive plural)
lokkini (genitive singular)
lokkieni (genitive plural)
lokkiani (partitive singular)
lokkejani (partitive plural)
lokissani (inessive singular)
lokeissani (inessive plural)
lokistani (elative singular)
lokeistani (elative plural)
lokkiini (illative singular)
lokkeihini (illative plural)
lokillani (adessive singular)
lokeillani (adessive plural)
lokiltani (ablative singular)
lokeiltani (ablative plural)
lokilleni (allative singular)
lokeilleni (allative plural)
lokkinani (essive singular)
lokkeinani (essive plural)
lokikseni (singular translative)
lokeikseni (plural translative)
lokittani (abessive singular)
lokeittani (abessive plural)
lokkeineni (comitative plural)
lokkisi (nominative singular)
lokkisi (nominative plural)
lokkisi (accusative nominative singular)
lokkisi (accusative nominative plural)
lokkisi (accusative genitive singular)
lokkisi (accusative genitive plural)
lokkisi (genitive singular)
lokkiesi (genitive plural)
lokkiasi (partitive singular)
lokkejasi (partitive plural)
lokissasi (inessive singular)
lokeissasi (inessive plural)
lokistasi (elative singular)
lokeistasi (elative plural)
lokkiisi (illative singular)
lokkeihisi (illative plural)
lokillasi (adessive singular)
lokeillasi (adessive plural)
lokiltasi (ablative singular)
lokeiltasi (ablative plural)
lokillesi (allative singular)
lokeillesi (allative plural)
lokkinasi (essive singular)
lokkeinasi (essive plural)
lokiksesi (singular translative)
lokeiksesi (plural translative)
lokittasi (abessive singular)
lokeittasi (abessive plural)
lokkeinesi (comitative plural)
lokkimme (nominative singular)
lokkimme (nominative plural)
lokkimme (accusative nominative singular)
lokkimme (accusative nominative plural)
lokkimme (accusative genitive singular)
lokkimme (accusative genitive plural)
lokkimme (genitive singular)
lokkiemme (genitive plural)
lokkiamme (partitive singular)
lokkejamme (partitive plural)
lokissamme (inessive singular)
lokeissamme (inessive plural)
lokistamme (elative singular)
lokeistamme (elative plural)
lokkiimme (illative singular)
lokkeihimme (illative plural)
lokillamme (adessive singular)
lokeillamme (adessive plural)
lokiltamme (ablative singular)
lokeiltamme (ablative plural)
lokillemme (allative singular)
lokeillemme (allative plural)
lokkinamme (essive singular)
lokkeinamme (essive plural)
lokiksemme (singular translative)
lokeiksemme (plural translative)
lokittamme (abessive singular)
lokeittamme (abessive plural)
lokkeinemme (comitative plural)
lokkinne (nominative singular)
lokkinne (nominative plural)
lokkinne (accusative nominative singular)
lokkinne (accusative nominative plural)
lokkinne (accusative genitive singular)
lokkinne (accusative genitive plural)
lokkinne (genitive singular)
lokkienne (genitive plural)
lokkianne (partitive singular)
lokkejanne (partitive plural)
lokissanne (inessive singular)
lokeissanne (inessive plural)
lokistanne (elative singular)
lokeistanne (elative plural)
lokkiinne (illative singular)
lokkeihinne (illative plural)
lokillanne (adessive singular)
lokeillanne (adessive plural)
lokiltanne (ablative singular)
lokeiltanne (ablative plural)
lokillenne (allative singular)
lokeillenne (allative plural)
lokkinanne (essive singular)
lokkeinanne (essive plural)
lokiksenne (singular translative)
lokeiksenne (plural translative)
lokittanne (abessive singular)
lokeittanne (abessive plural)
lokkeinenne (comitative plural)
lokkinsa (nominative singular)
lokkinsa (nominative plural)
lokkinsa (accusative nominative singular)
lokkinsa (accusative nominative plural)
lokkinsa (accusative genitive singular)
lokkinsa (accusative genitive plural)
lokkinsa (genitive singular)
lokkiensa (genitive plural)
lokkiaan (partitive singular)
lokkiansa (partitive singular)
lokkejaan (partitive plural)
lokkejansa (partitive plural)
lokissaan (inessive singular)
lokissansa (inessive singular)
lokeissaan (inessive plural)
lokeissansa (inessive plural)
lokistaan (elative singular)
lokistansa (elative singular)
lokeistaan (elative plural)
lokeistansa (elative plural)
lokkiinsa (illative singular)
lokkeihinsa (illative plural)
lokillaan (adessive singular)
lokillansa (adessive singular)
lokeillaan (adessive plural)
lokeillansa (adessive plural)
lokiltaan (ablative singular)
lokiltansa (ablative singular)
lokeiltaan (ablative plural)
lokeiltansa (ablative plural)
lokilleen (allative singular)
lokillensa (allative singular)
lokeilleen (allative plural)
lokeillensa (allative plural)
lokkinaan (essive singular)
lokkinansa (essive singular)
lokkeinaan (essive plural)
lokkeinansa (essive plural)
lokikseen (singular translative)
lokiksensa (singular translative)
lokeikseen (plural translative)
lokeiksensa (plural translative)
lokittaan (abessive singular)
lokittansa (abessive singular)
lokeittaan (abessive plural)
lokeittansa (abessive plural)
lokkeineen (comitative plural)
lokkeinensa (comitative plural)

Cognate to Karelian lokka. Compare Estonian lõugas (“gull”). Probably onomatopoeic.

gull, seagull (any bird of the genus Larus within the family Laridae)

(taxonomy) gull, seagull (any bird of the family Laridae)

(colloquial) One that begs for handouts from their friends, particularly food or drink; a mooch.


Seeschwalbe

Seeschwalbe f (genitive Seeschwalbe, plural Seeschwalben)

Seeschwalbe (genitive)
Seeschwalben (plural)
Seeschwalbe (nominative singular)
Seeschwalben (definite nominative plural)
Seeschwalbe (genitive singular)
Seeschwalben (definite genitive plural)
Seeschwalbe (dative singular)
Seeschwalben (dative definite plural)
Seeschwalbe (accusative singular)
Seeschwalben (accusative definite plural)


mæw

mǣw (canonical masculine)
mǣw (nominative singular)
mǣwas (nominative plural)
mǣw (accusative singular)
mǣwas (accusative plural)
mǣwes (genitive singular)
mǣwa (genitive plural)
mǣwe (dative singular)
mǣwum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: mewe, mawe, meau, mowe
English: mew (archaic)
Scots: maw (through confluence with Old Norse form)
→ Old French: maoe, mave, mauve
French: mauve
Old French: moette
French: mouette

From Proto-Germanic *maiwiz, a byform of Proto-Germanic *maiwaz. Cognate with West Frisian meau, miuw, Old Saxon mēu (Middle Low German meve, from which German Möwe), Dutch meeuw, Old Norse már, mór.

On gōdne dæġ ic ġefō crabban and telle mǣwas.

On a good day, I catch crabs and count seagulls.


Lachmöwe

de-noun

Lachmöwe f (genitive Lachmöwe, plural Lachmöwen)

Lachmöwe (genitive)
Lachmöwen (plural)
Lachmöwe (nominative singular)
Lachmöwen (definite nominative plural)
Lachmöwe (genitive singular)
Lachmöwen (definite genitive plural)
Lachmöwe (dative singular)
Lachmöwen (dative definite plural)
Lachmöwe (accusative singular)
Lachmöwen (accusative definite plural)

From lachen + Möwe, calque of translingual Larus ridibundus (obsolete).


Möwe

Möwe f (genitive Möwe, plural Möwen, diminutive Möwchen n)

Möwe (genitive)
Möwen (plural)
Möwchen (diminutive neuter)
Möwe (nominative singular)
Möwen (definite nominative plural)
Möwe (genitive singular)
Möwen (definite genitive plural)
Möwe (dative singular)
Möwen (dative definite plural)
Möwe (accusative singular)
Möwen (accusative definite plural)

→ Yiddish: מעווע (meve)

→ Esperanto: mevo

desctree

→ Polish: mewa
→ Belarusian: мэ́ва (méva)
→ Esperanto: mevo
→ Ukrainian: ме́ва (méva)

Borrowed from Middle Low German mêwe, mêve, from Old Saxon *mēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *maiwā, from Proto-Germanic *maiwaz. Cognate with German Low German Mööv, Meev, Dutch meeuw, English mew, Old Norse már.


black-headed gull

en-noun

black-headed gull (plural black-headed gulls)

Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Chroicocephalus ridibundus#Translingual

A small gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada.

псытхьэрыкъуэщхьэфӏыцӏэ

psətḥɛrəqʷɛśḥɛfʼəcʼɛ

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tónteel tsídii bitsiiʼ halzhinígíí


kittiwake

kittiwake (plural kittiwakes or kittiwake)

Originally Scots, imitative of the bird's call.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.


darter

Any of the similar South American (and Panamanian) freshwater fish in the characin family Crenuchidae


skua

From Faroese skúgvur (“Great Skua”), from Old Norse skúfr, of unknown origin.

Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches.

كَرْكَر

predatory seabird of the family Stercorariidae


guillemot

Any seabird belonging to the genera Uria and Cepphus of the auk family Alcidae. They have black and white bodies and are good at swimming and diving.


guillemot

Diminutive of the male given name Guillaume, used as a common noun.


peewit

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-peewit.wav

any of several birds
laughing gull (Xema ridibundus)


tučňák

tučňák (nominative singular)
tučňáci (nominative plural)
tučňáka (genitive singular)
tučňáků (genitive plural)
tučňákovi (dative singular)
tučňáku (dative singular)
tučňákům (dative plural)
tučňáka (accusative singular)
tučňáky (accusative plural)
tučňáku (singular vocative)
tučňáci (plural vocative)
tučňákovi (locative singular)
tučňáku (locative singular)
tučňácích (locative plural)
tučňákem (instrumental singular)
tučňáky (instrumental plural)


Lund

de-noun

Lund m (strong, genitive Lundes or Lunds, plural Lunde)

Lundes (genitive)
Lunds (genitive)
Lunde (plural)
Lund (nominative singular)
Lunde (definite nominative plural)
Lundes (genitive singular)
Lunds (genitive singular)
Lunde (definite genitive plural)
Lund (dative singular)
Lunde (dative singular)
Lunden (dative definite plural)
Lund (accusative singular)
Lunde (accusative definite plural)


razorbill

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-razorbill.wav

A large black and white auk, Alca torda, native to the north Atlantic.


shearwater

Macronesian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri baroli or Puffinus baroli

Persian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri persicus or Puffinus persicus

tropical shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri bailloni or Puffinus bailloni

At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:

Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.

(by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.


fulmar

From Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull”) (cognate to English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.

In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.

2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:

In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.

2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:

And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.

2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis#Translingual

Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.


fulmar

fulmar (nominative singular)
fulmary (nominative plural)
fulmara (genitive singular)
fulmarów (genitive plural)
fulmarowi (dative singular)
fulmarom (dative plural)
fulmara (accusative singular)
fulmary (accusative plural)
fulmarem (instrumental singular)
fulmarami (instrumental plural)
fulmarze (locative singular)
fulmarach (locative plural)
fulmarze (singular vocative)
fulmary (plural vocative)


пингвин

bg-noun

пингви́н • (pingvín) m (relational adjective пингви́нов, diminutive пингви́нче)

пингви́н (canonical)
pingvín (romanization)
пингви́нов (adjective relational)
пингви́нче (diminutive)
пингви́н (indefinite singular)
пингви́ни (indefinite plural)
пингви́нът (definite singular subjective)
пингви́ните (definite plural subjective)
пингви́на (definite objective singular)
пингви́ните (definite objective plural)
пингви́на (count-form plural)
пингви́не (singular vocative)
пингви́ни (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

пингви́н</voc:~е>

Borrowed from English pinguin (obsolete pronunciation), called after the now extinct alcid bird Pinguinus impennis (great auk), which shared physical resemblance with the true penguins from the South hemisphere, first encountered in 19 century.

penguin (flightless seabird of order Sphenisciformes)


taiko

The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61:

Chatham Island taiko
Chatham Island taiko

Pterodroma magentae
Pterodroma magentae#Translingual

The Chatham Island taiko (Pterodroma magentae).


aalscholver

nl-noun

aalscholver m (plural aalscholvers, diminutive aalscholvertje n)

aalscholvers (plural)
aalscholvertje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of aal (“eel”) + scholver (“cormorant”).


gooney

Phoebastria immutabilis
Phoebastria immutabilis#Translingual

Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.


wanderer

From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er. Cognate with Scots wanderer, wandirer (“wanderer”), Dutch wandelaar (“walker, hiker”), German Wanderer (“wanderer”), Danish vandrer (“wanderer”), Swedish vandrare (“wanderer”), Norwegian vandrer (“wanderer”).

(colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.


gant

head

gant m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

gant (mutation mutation-radical)
ghant (lenition mutation)
ngant (eclipsis mutation)

From English gander. Compare Old Irish ganndal m (“gander”) (modern gandal).


Wilson's storm petrel

en-noun

Wilson's storm petrel (plural Wilson's storm petrels)

The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands

A small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae, breeding on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands.

Kéyah Yistinídę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naatʼaʼígíí


snow petrel

A small, pure white fulmarine petrel with black underdown, coal-black eyes, small black bill and bluish gray feet.


storm petrel

Nólsoy is home to one of the largest breeding colonies of storm petrels on earth.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 127:

Any of several small seabirds, of the families Hydrobatidae (northern storm petrels) or Oceanitidae (southern storm petrels or Austral storm petrels), having dark plumage and a white rump.


burgemeester

nl-noun

burgemeester m (plural burgemeesters, feminine burgemeesteres)

burgemeesters (plural)
burgemeesteres (feminine)

Afrikaans: burgemeester

→ English: burgomaster

→ French: bourgmestre

From Middle Dutch borchmeester, borgermeester. Corresponding to either a compound of burg (“burgh, town”) or burger (“citizen”) + meester (“master”).

kleine burgemeester
kleine burgemeester#Dutch

Synonym of kleine burgemeester (“Larus glaucoides”)

grote burgemeester
grote burgemeester#Dutch

Synonym of grote burgemeester (“Larus hyperboreus”)


goonie

Phoebastria nigripes
Phoebastria nigripes#Translingual

Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.


mouette

From Middle French mouette, from Old French moette, diminutive of Old French maoe (Anglo-Norman mave, mauve), from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maiwaz (“seagull”). Compare mauvis. More at mew.


murri

murri (nominative singular)
murrit (nominative plural)
murri (accusative nominative singular)
murrit (accusative nominative plural)
murrin (accusative genitive singular)
murrit (accusative genitive plural)
murrin (genitive singular)
murrien (genitive plural)
murria (partitive singular)
murreja (partitive plural)
murrissa (inessive singular)
murreissa (inessive plural)
murrista (elative singular)
murreista (elative plural)
murriin (illative singular)
murreihin (illative plural)
murrilla (adessive singular)
murreilla (adessive plural)
murrilta (ablative singular)
murreilta (ablative plural)
murrille (allative singular)
murreille (allative plural)
murrina (essive singular)
murreina (essive plural)
murriksi (singular translative)
murreiksi (plural translative)
murritta (abessive singular)
murreitta (abessive plural)
murrein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
murrini (nominative singular)
murrini (nominative plural)
murrini (accusative nominative singular)
murrini (accusative nominative plural)
murrini (accusative genitive singular)
murrini (accusative genitive plural)
murrini (genitive singular)
murrieni (genitive plural)
murriani (partitive singular)
murrejani (partitive plural)
murrissani (inessive singular)
murreissani (inessive plural)
murristani (elative singular)
murreistani (elative plural)
murriini (illative singular)
murreihini (illative plural)
murrillani (adessive singular)
murreillani (adessive plural)
murriltani (ablative singular)
murreiltani (ablative plural)
murrilleni (allative singular)
murreilleni (allative plural)
murrinani (essive singular)
murreinani (essive plural)
murrikseni (singular translative)
murreikseni (plural translative)
murrittani (abessive singular)
murreittani (abessive plural)
murreineni (comitative plural)
murrisi (nominative singular)
murrisi (nominative plural)
murrisi (accusative nominative singular)
murrisi (accusative nominative plural)
murrisi (accusative genitive singular)
murrisi (accusative genitive plural)
murrisi (genitive singular)
murriesi (genitive plural)
murriasi (partitive singular)
murrejasi (partitive plural)
murrissasi (inessive singular)
murreissasi (inessive plural)
murristasi (elative singular)
murreistasi (elative plural)
murriisi (illative singular)
murreihisi (illative plural)
murrillasi (adessive singular)
murreillasi (adessive plural)
murriltasi (ablative singular)
murreiltasi (ablative plural)
murrillesi (allative singular)
murreillesi (allative plural)
murrinasi (essive singular)
murreinasi (essive plural)
murriksesi (singular translative)
murreiksesi (plural translative)
murrittasi (abessive singular)
murreittasi (abessive plural)
murreinesi (comitative plural)
murrimme (nominative singular)
murrimme (nominative plural)
murrimme (accusative nominative singular)
murrimme (accusative nominative plural)
murrimme (accusative genitive singular)
murrimme (accusative genitive plural)
murrimme (genitive singular)
murriemme (genitive plural)
murriamme (partitive singular)
murrejamme (partitive plural)
murrissamme (inessive singular)
murreissamme (inessive plural)
murristamme (elative singular)
murreistamme (elative plural)
murriimme (illative singular)
murreihimme (illative plural)
murrillamme (adessive singular)
murreillamme (adessive plural)
murriltamme (ablative singular)
murreiltamme (ablative plural)
murrillemme (allative singular)
murreillemme (allative plural)
murrinamme (essive singular)
murreinamme (essive plural)
murriksemme (singular translative)
murreiksemme (plural translative)
murrittamme (abessive singular)
murreittamme (abessive plural)
murreinemme (comitative plural)
murrinne (nominative singular)
murrinne (nominative plural)
murrinne (accusative nominative singular)
murrinne (accusative nominative plural)
murrinne (accusative genitive singular)
murrinne (accusative genitive plural)
murrinne (genitive singular)
murrienne (genitive plural)
murrianne (partitive singular)
murrejanne (partitive plural)
murrissanne (inessive singular)
murreissanne (inessive plural)
murristanne (elative singular)
murreistanne (elative plural)
murriinne (illative singular)
murreihinne (illative plural)
murrillanne (adessive singular)
murreillanne (adessive plural)
murriltanne (ablative singular)
murreiltanne (ablative plural)
murrillenne (allative singular)
murreillenne (allative plural)
murrinanne (essive singular)
murreinanne (essive plural)
murriksenne (singular translative)
murreiksenne (plural translative)
murrittanne (abessive singular)
murreittanne (abessive plural)
murreinenne (comitative plural)
murrinsa (nominative singular)
murrinsa (nominative plural)
murrinsa (accusative nominative singular)
murrinsa (accusative nominative plural)
murrinsa (accusative genitive singular)
murrinsa (accusative genitive plural)
murrinsa (genitive singular)
murriensa (genitive plural)
murriaan (partitive singular)
murriansa (partitive singular)
murrejaan (partitive plural)
murrejansa (partitive plural)
murrissaan (inessive singular)
murrissansa (inessive singular)
murreissaan (inessive plural)
murreissansa (inessive plural)
murristaan (elative singular)
murristansa (elative singular)
murreistaan (elative plural)
murreistansa (elative plural)
murriinsa (illative singular)
murreihinsa (illative plural)
murrillaan (adessive singular)
murrillansa (adessive singular)
murreillaan (adessive plural)
murreillansa (adessive plural)
murriltaan (ablative singular)
murriltansa (ablative singular)
murreiltaan (ablative plural)
murreiltansa (ablative plural)
murrilleen (allative singular)
murrillensa (allative singular)
murreilleen (allative plural)
murreillensa (allative plural)
murrinaan (essive singular)
murrinansa (essive singular)
murreinaan (essive plural)
murreinansa (essive plural)
murrikseen (singular translative)
murriksensa (singular translative)
murreikseen (plural translative)
murreiksensa (plural translative)
murrittaan (abessive singular)
murrittansa (abessive singular)
murreittaan (abessive plural)
murreittansa (abessive plural)
murreineen (comitative plural)
murreinensa (comitative plural)

Derived from English murrelet; coined by Nimistökomitea (Committee for Bird Names of the Finnish Ornithological Society) in 1992.

coin

Nimistökomitea (Finnish Ornithological Society)

murrelet (seabirds in the genera Brachyramphus and Synthliboramphus of the auk family Alcidae)

aasianmarmorimurri

Brachyramphus perdix, long-billed murrelet

guadalupenmurri

Synthliboramphus hypoleucus, Guadalupe murrelet

marmorimurri

Brachyramphus marmoratus, marbled murrelet

lyhytnokkamurri

Brachyramphus brevirostris, Kittlitz’s murrelet

kalifornianmurri

Synthliboramphus scrippsi, Scripps’s murrelet

meksikonmurri

Synthliboramphus craveri, Craveri’s murrelet

mustakurkkumurri

Synthliboramphus antiquus, ancient murrelet

töyhtömurri

Synthliboramphus wumizusume, Japanese murrelet


herring gull

European herring gull
European herring gull

Larus argentatus
Larus argentatus#Translingual

Any of a group of large seagulls in the Larus genus.

Specifically the European herring gull (Larus argentatus).

American herring gull

Larus smithsonianus or Larus argentatus smithsonianus


mewa

mewa (nominative singular)
mewy (nominative plural)
mewy (genitive singular)
mew (genitive plural)
mewie (dative singular)
mewom (dative plural)
mewę (accusative singular)
mewy (accusative plural)
mewą (instrumental singular)
mewami (instrumental plural)
mewie (locative singular)
mewach (locative plural)
mewo (singular vocative)
mewy (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: мэ́ва (méva)

→ Esperanto: mevo

→ Ukrainian: ме́ва (méva)


albatrossi

albatrossi (nominative singular)
albatrossit (nominative plural)
albatrossi (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossit (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossin (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossit (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossin (genitive singular)
albatrossien (genitive plural)
albatrossia (partitive singular)
albatrosseja (partitive plural)
albatrossissa (inessive singular)
albatrosseissa (inessive plural)
albatrossista (elative singular)
albatrosseista (elative plural)
albatrossiin (illative singular)
albatrosseihin (illative plural)
albatrossilla (adessive singular)
albatrosseilla (adessive plural)
albatrossilta (ablative singular)
albatrosseilta (ablative plural)
albatrossille (allative singular)
albatrosseille (allative plural)
albatrossina (essive singular)
albatrosseina (essive plural)
albatrossiksi (singular translative)
albatrosseiksi (plural translative)
albatrossitta (abessive singular)
albatrosseitta (abessive plural)
albatrossein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
albatrossini (nominative singular)
albatrossini (nominative plural)
albatrossini (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossini (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossini (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossini (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossini (genitive singular)
albatrossieni (genitive plural)
albatrossiani (partitive singular)
albatrossejani (partitive plural)
albatrossissani (inessive singular)
albatrosseissani (inessive plural)
albatrossistani (elative singular)
albatrosseistani (elative plural)
albatrossiini (illative singular)
albatrosseihini (illative plural)
albatrossillani (adessive singular)
albatrosseillani (adessive plural)
albatrossiltani (ablative singular)
albatrosseiltani (ablative plural)
albatrossilleni (allative singular)
albatrosseilleni (allative plural)
albatrossinani (essive singular)
albatrosseinani (essive plural)
albatrossikseni (singular translative)
albatrosseikseni (plural translative)
albatrossittani (abessive singular)
albatrosseittani (abessive plural)
albatrosseineni (comitative plural)
albatrossisi (nominative singular)
albatrossisi (nominative plural)
albatrossisi (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossisi (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossisi (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossisi (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossisi (genitive singular)
albatrossiesi (genitive plural)
albatrossiasi (partitive singular)
albatrossejasi (partitive plural)
albatrossissasi (inessive singular)
albatrosseissasi (inessive plural)
albatrossistasi (elative singular)
albatrosseistasi (elative plural)
albatrossiisi (illative singular)
albatrosseihisi (illative plural)
albatrossillasi (adessive singular)
albatrosseillasi (adessive plural)
albatrossiltasi (ablative singular)
albatrosseiltasi (ablative plural)
albatrossillesi (allative singular)
albatrosseillesi (allative plural)
albatrossinasi (essive singular)
albatrosseinasi (essive plural)
albatrossiksesi (singular translative)
albatrosseiksesi (plural translative)
albatrossittasi (abessive singular)
albatrosseittasi (abessive plural)
albatrosseinesi (comitative plural)
albatrossimme (nominative singular)
albatrossimme (nominative plural)
albatrossimme (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossimme (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossimme (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossimme (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossimme (genitive singular)
albatrossiemme (genitive plural)
albatrossiamme (partitive singular)
albatrossejamme (partitive plural)
albatrossissamme (inessive singular)
albatrosseissamme (inessive plural)
albatrossistamme (elative singular)
albatrosseistamme (elative plural)
albatrossiimme (illative singular)
albatrosseihimme (illative plural)
albatrossillamme (adessive singular)
albatrosseillamme (adessive plural)
albatrossiltamme (ablative singular)
albatrosseiltamme (ablative plural)
albatrossillemme (allative singular)
albatrosseillemme (allative plural)
albatrossinamme (essive singular)
albatrosseinamme (essive plural)
albatrossiksemme (singular translative)
albatrosseiksemme (plural translative)
albatrossittamme (abessive singular)
albatrosseittamme (abessive plural)
albatrosseinemme (comitative plural)
albatrossinne (nominative singular)
albatrossinne (nominative plural)
albatrossinne (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossinne (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossinne (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossinne (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossinne (genitive singular)
albatrossienne (genitive plural)
albatrossianne (partitive singular)
albatrossejanne (partitive plural)
albatrossissanne (inessive singular)
albatrosseissanne (inessive plural)
albatrossistanne (elative singular)
albatrosseistanne (elative plural)
albatrossiinne (illative singular)
albatrosseihinne (illative plural)
albatrossillanne (adessive singular)
albatrosseillanne (adessive plural)
albatrossiltanne (ablative singular)
albatrosseiltanne (ablative plural)
albatrossillenne (allative singular)
albatrosseillenne (allative plural)
albatrossinanne (essive singular)
albatrosseinanne (essive plural)
albatrossiksenne (singular translative)
albatrosseiksenne (plural translative)
albatrossittanne (abessive singular)
albatrosseittanne (abessive plural)
albatrosseinenne (comitative plural)
albatrossinsa (nominative singular)
albatrossinsa (nominative plural)
albatrossinsa (accusative nominative singular)
albatrossinsa (accusative nominative plural)
albatrossinsa (accusative genitive singular)
albatrossinsa (accusative genitive plural)
albatrossinsa (genitive singular)
albatrossiensa (genitive plural)
albatrossiaan (partitive singular)
albatrossiansa (partitive singular)
albatrossejaan (partitive plural)
albatrossejansa (partitive plural)
albatrossissaan (inessive singular)
albatrossissansa (inessive singular)
albatrosseissaan (inessive plural)
albatrosseissansa (inessive plural)
albatrossistaan (elative singular)
albatrossistansa (elative singular)
albatrosseistaan (elative plural)
albatrosseistansa (elative plural)
albatrossiinsa (illative singular)
albatrosseihinsa (illative plural)
albatrossillaan (adessive singular)
albatrossillansa (adessive singular)
albatrosseillaan (adessive plural)
albatrosseillansa (adessive plural)
albatrossiltaan (ablative singular)
albatrossiltansa (ablative singular)
albatrosseiltaan (ablative plural)
albatrosseiltansa (ablative plural)
albatrossilleen (allative singular)
albatrossillensa (allative singular)
albatrosseilleen (allative plural)
albatrosseillensa (allative plural)
albatrossinaan (essive singular)
albatrossinansa (essive singular)
albatrosseinaan (essive plural)
albatrosseinansa (essive plural)
albatrossikseen (singular translative)
albatrossiksensa (singular translative)
albatrosseikseen (plural translative)
albatrosseiksensa (plural translative)
albatrossittaan (abessive singular)
albatrossittansa (abessive singular)
albatrosseittaan (abessive plural)
albatrosseittansa (abessive plural)
albatrosseineen (comitative plural)
albatrosseinensa (comitative plural)

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