trumpeter swan

Cygnus buccinator
Cygnus buccinator#Translingual

The largest North American swan, Cygnus buccinator; they have white plumage with a long neck, a short black bill.


duck

en-noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)

desctree

Sranan Tongo: doksi (from the plural)
→ Dutch: doks

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Dutch duiker (“diver, dipper, plunger”), German Low German Düker (“diver”), German Taucher (“diver, plunger”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) connected with ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”).

cog

could eat the arse out of a low flying duck

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)

nulletjie

a batsman's score of zero after getting out


duck

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).


pen

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.

cog

you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell

you don't dip your pen in the company's ink

a dab pen; a wax pen

Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).


teal

en-noun

teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).

unk

unknown

In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens.

2021 September 21, Kurt Wallace, “Navigating the great dividing voter range”, in IPA Today, Institute of Public Affairs:

Concerns of a targeted dirty tricks campaign targeting “teal” independents has prompted the Australian Electoral Commission to bring in its electoral integrity assurance taskforce as pre-polling opens.

2022 May 9, “AEC mobilises taskforce to investigate corflute damage”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 10:

Ms Haines is a strong proponent of this, and many of the teal cross benchers support her approach to appointing a whistleblower protection commissioner.

2022 September 26, “Teals, Greens list watchdog demands”, in The Canberra Times, page 6:

(countable, Australia, politics, chiefly attributive) A teal independent.


goose

en-verb

goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)

gooses (present singular third-person)
goosing (participle present)
goosed (participle past)
goosed (past)

PIE word
 *ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Low German Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.

(slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.


swan

From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”).
Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”).
Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”).
Doublet of sound.

inh

Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.


whistler

From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.

A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).


mallard

From Middle English malard, mawlard, mawdelard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.

Anas platyrhynchos
Anas platyrhynchos#Translingual

Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

rosa e vëndit

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos


greylag goose

/ˌɡɹeɪlæɡ ˈɡuːs/

Anser anser, a goose that breads in northern Eurasia and winters in semitropical Asia.

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełítsoh łibáhígíí


mandarin

→ Irish: mandairín

From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). In Chinese folk etymology, the word originates from Mandarin 滿大人 /满大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).

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LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs.
They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.

1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.


laughing goose

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

The European white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).


trumpeter

From trumpet + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan. Currently there's enough habitat for both species, but that may change if trumpeters flourish and mutes aren't controlled.

1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants:

An American swan (Cygnus buccinator) with a very loud honk.


duckling

From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


drake

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.


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

In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order….

1664, John Witherings, “The Orders, Laws, and Ancient Customs of Swans”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume VII, published 1810, page 292:

The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.

1970, E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 22:

The cob will defend the nest and the eggs.

2008, Nicole Helget, Swans, Creative Education,, →ISBN, page 22:

svanasteggi

there is no special word in Faroese for cob in this sense

cygne mâle

there is no special word in French for cob in this sense

Schwanenmännchen (cf. Schwanen-, Männchen n)

cisne macho

there is no special word in Spanish for cob in this sense

svanhane

there is no special word in Swedish for cob in this sense

…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.


cygnet

From Middle English cignet, signet, from Anglo-Norman cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne (“swan”), from Latin cygnus, cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.


gander

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Compare also Lithuanian gañdras (“stork”). Related to goose, gannet.

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander


gosling

→ Irish: góislín

From Late Middle English goslyng (“gosling”), alteration (due to Middle English goos (“goose”)) of earlier gesling (“gosling”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse gæsling, géslingr (“gosling”), from gás (“goose”) + -lingr (“-ling”), equivalent to goose + -ling. Cognate with Danish gæsling (“gosling”), Swedish gässling (“gosling”). Compare also Low German gossel, gössel (“gosling”), German Gänslein (“gosling”).

These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds;

1797, Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, page 8:

When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.

1893, “Tree Proverbs”, in The Journal of Education, volume 37, page 170:

The common Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix caprea) forms a small bush in rough places and the hollows left by old gravel-pits. It produces the “goslings” which children are fond of gathering at Easter .

1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116:

In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water. Locally, the flowers are known as 'goslings'. Water. It has no motion of its own; it is the mechanic betrayer of other forces. the breeze gently drifts the goslings to the far shore.

2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood:

(dated) A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines.


marionette

Borrowed from French marionnette. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.


redhead

Aythya americana
Aythya americana#Translingual

A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.


flapper

In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

2004, David Day, Albert Jackson, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, page 356:


cracker

From crack + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Brothers and the whiteys / Blacks and the crackers / Police and their backers / They're all political actors

1970, “(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go”, in Curtis, performed by Curtis Mayfield:

Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Hooper (Dwight Ewell):

“You know that old cracker beat them boys.”

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 202:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).


ruddy

en-adj

ruddy (comparative ruddier, superlative ruddiest)

ruddier (comparative)
ruddiest (superlative)

From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.

Drystone walls, farm buildings and stone cottages, roofed with ruddy tiles, line the way and blend gently into the surrounding countryside.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 143:

Frank, who is narrow and ruddy, and who tended to wear a shirt and tie with a cherry-red beanie pulled low over one ear, swapped his white butcher’s coat for a puffer jacket, and led me outside

2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:

Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.


ruddy

In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies, greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls.

2007 November 4, Deborah Baldwin, “Close to Nature, and the Airport”, in New York Times:

Ground doves — two ruddies are shown here — are so called because they feed on the ground.

1987, Jürgen Nicolai, A Complete Introduction to Finches, Tfh Publications Incorporated, →ISBN, page 89:

Understandably, birders in the U.S. are advised to carefully distinguish Ruddies from the usually more-expected Common Ground-Doves [...]. (Brightly-colored, pinkish adult male Common Ground-Doves have been misidentified as male Ruddies on several occasions, however.) Unless the fortunate birder happens upon a Ruddy Ground-Dove amongst a flock of sparrows, it will often be necessary to sort through innumerable Inca Doves.

Common Ground-Dove — Fairly common permanent resident of better-watered valleys at lower elevations. Avoids town [...] Ironically, Ruddies often ignore the little flocks of closely related Commons, and choose to associate with Inca Doves.

2005, Richard Cachor Taylor, A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona, page 237:

Out-of-state birders seeking Ruddy Ground Doves should be aware of two things. Ruddies associate much more frequently with Inca Doves than with Common Ground Doves. In fact, in eleven personal sightings of this species in Arizona, I have never seen a Ruddy with a Common nor has anyone else I know. [...] Perhaps this is a slow invasion, and forty years hence Ruddies will be so common ...

2008, Jim Burns, Jim Burns' Arizona Birds: From the Backyard to the Backwoods, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 28:


ruddy

en-verb

ruddy (third-person singular simple present ruddies, present participle ruddying, simple past and past participle ruddied)

ruddies (present singular third-person)
ruddying (participle present)
ruddied (participle past)
ruddied (past)

The sunset ruddied our faces.

It ruddied all the copse-wood glen

1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:


brant

From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).

I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:

Branta bernicla
Branta bernicla#Translingual

(Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.


eider

From Icelandic æðar, genitive of æðr, probably reaching English via Swedish eider (now ejder), from a North Germanic root.

Polysticta stelleri
Polysticta stelleri#Translingual

Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).


hooper

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual

(ornithology) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Cygnus cygnus).


scaup

See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).

Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.

2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times:

Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.


scoter

When I went birdwatching, I saw lots of scoters.

Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta.


merganser

From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).

Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.


rout

en-noun

rout (countable and uncountable, plural routs)

The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms], from rout, route (noun); see above.

nb...

rote, rought, roughte, rouht, routh, routhte, routt, routte, rouwte, rouʒt, rouʒte, rovte, rowt, rowte, rowth, rowthte, rowtt, rowtte, rowȝt, ruth, rutte, (West Midlands) roite, (Northern England) rutte, ruth, (chiefly Northern England, early Middle English) rut, rute

nb...

route, rowte, (Northern England) rute, (Late Middle English) rouȝt

(countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.


rout

en-verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

routs (present singular third-person)
routing (participle present)
routed (participle past)
routed (past)

A variant of wrout, itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wrōtan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”). from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”), cf. English wort, English root .

nb...

vrote, wroote, wrot, wrote, wrothe, wrotyn, (Scotland) wrotte

inh

Nevertheless, he was always stimulated by Winsett, and whenever he caught sight of the journalist's lean bearded face and melancholy eyes he would rout him out of his corner and carry him off for a long talk.

1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 122:

(transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.


rout

Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).

(transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.

(transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.


surfer

→ Japanese: サーファー (sāfā)

Melanitta perspicillata
Melanitta perspicillata#Translingual

(obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).


anatine

en-adj

anatine (comparative more anatine, superlative most anatine)

more anatine (comparative)
most anatine (superlative)

From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis (“a duck”) + -inus (“-ine”).

(zoology) Being of the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.


whim

en-noun

whim (countable and uncountable, plural whims)

Let ev’ry Man enjoy his whim; / What’s He to Me, or I to him?

1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, book IV, J. Coote, →OCLC, page 137:

The king was tired of this whim of hers long ago, and thought she ought to get married like other people; there was nothing she need wait for, she was old enough and she would not be any richer either, for she was to have half the kingdom, which she inherited after her mother.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:

“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.

2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-22:

A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.

(mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes


whim

en-verb

whim (third-person singular simple present whims, present participle whimming, simple past and past participle whimmed)

whims (present singular third-person)
whimming (participle present)
whimmed (participle past)
whimmed (past)

(rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.


wild goose

any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.


loggerhead

From logger (“(dialectal) heavy wooden block secured to a horse's leg to prevent it from straying”) + head. Logger was apparently coined because its sound connotes a clumsy, heavy object; compare log (“trunk of a dead tree; bulky piece of wood”).

compound

Loggerheads, from the resemblance of its knobbed involucres to a weapon so called, consisting of a ball of iron at the end of a stick, the knapweed, the Clobbewed of old MSS. Centaurea nigra, L.

1863, R[ichard] C[handler] A[lexander] Prior, “Loggerheads”, in On the Popular Names of British Plants, […], London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 137:

Bolwes, loggerheads, centaurea nigra. […] Bolwes is balls, the hard round heads of the wort. Loggerheads is a name I have often heard in Oxfordshire.

1866, “Saxon Names of Worts and Trees”, in Oswald Cockayne, editor, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores), volume III, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, →OCLC, page 315, column 1:

(Midlands, dialectal, often in the plural) A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

But here is a ſpecies of ducks, called the loggerhead, from its large head. They have ſhort wings, are unable to fly, and only ſwim and flap along on the water at an extraordinary rate.

1775 November 9, William Clayton, “V. An Account of the Falkland Islands”, in Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London, volume XLVI, part I, number 446, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer and J[ohn] Nichols; for Lockyer Davis, […], printer to the Royal Society, published 1776, →OCLC, page 104:

A ſpecies of duck, as large as a gooſe, and called the loggerhead duck at the Falkland Iſlands, is here met with, which beats the water with its wings and feet, and runs along the ſea with inconceivable velocity; […]

1810 July, Jedidiah Morse, “Terra del Fuego Island”, in The American Gazetteer, Exhibiting a Full Account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbors, Indian Tribes, &c. of the American Continent: […], 3rd revised and corrected edition, Boston, Mass.: Thomas & Andrews […], →OCLC:

Micropterus cinereus (Gm.). (Loggerhead Duck.) This Duck, which is called the ‘Loggerhead’ in the Falkland Islands, frequents the salt water. […] Looking for the Loggerhead’s eggs, which are esteemed a great delicacy, is a great amusement to all the boys in Stanley.

1861 April, C[harles] C[onrad] Abbott, “XV.—Notes on the Birds of the Falkland Islands”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, editor, The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, volume III, number X, London: N[icholas] Trübner and Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 42, page 161:

Tachyeres brachypterus
Tachyeres brachypterus#Translingual

Used as the name of various animals with large heads.

The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.

[E]arly in the season, a pair of Loggerheads, Tyrannus caudifasciatus, appropriated the same tree to themselves, and commenced constructing their nest. The Mocking birds were seen constantly in the square, but never interrupted or interfered with them until they had nearly completed the nest; they then drove away the Loggerheads, took possession of it, added a few sticks to the outwork, laid the eggs and hatched the young brood. The poor Loggerheads hovered about the place in great distress for a few days, but never attempted to regain possession of their property.

1863 October–November, W. T. March, S[pencer] F[ullerton] Baird, “(Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution.) Notes on the Birds of Jamaica. […]”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Academy of Natural Sciences, […], →OCLC, page 291:

loggerhead kingbird
loggerhead kingbird#English

The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies.

[…] I have received here also one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not borealis or excubitoroides, that is the species referred to. […] So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly of the New England States.

1879 April, T[homas] M[ayo] Brewer, “General Notes. [The Loggerhead Shrike (Colluro ludovicianus) Breeding in Northern New England.]”, in Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume IV, number 2, Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the [Nuttall Ornithological] Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

Lanius ludovicianus
Lanius ludovicianus#Translingual

The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North America.

Sternotherus minor (Agassiz) / Loggerhead musk-turtle / […] Most numerous in large calcareous springs, where they may be seen at night wandering around on the bottom, especially about piles of debris.

1940 January, Archie Fairly Carr, Jr., “Annotated List”, in A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida (University of Florida Biological Science Series; vol. III, no. 1), [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, →OCLC, page 96:

The loggerhead (S[ternotherus] m[inor] minor) and stripe-necked (S. m. peltifer) musk turtles represent two distinct subspecies of a species with a tan to brown carapace with black streaking and overlapping scutes down the center of the carapace. […] The head of old loggerhead musk turtles becomes disproportionately enlarged, as does the front half of the entire shell.

2008, Kurl Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville, Whit Gibbons, “Loggerhead and Striped-head Musk Turtles”, in Turtles of the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book), Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 131:

loggerhead musk turtle
loggerhead musk turtle#English

The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed turtle endemic to the United States.

The Loggerhead is ſo called from the largeneſs of its head, which is much bigger in proportion than that of other kinds. The fleſh of this alſo is very rank, and not eaten but in caſe of neceſſity.

1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Tortoise, and Its Kinds”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VI, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, part IV (Of Crustaceous and Testaceous Fishes), page 361:

[O]ur boat was hoisted out, and a loggerhead turtle struck as it was sleeping on the surface of the water. […] Dr. Patrick Browne, in his Natural History of Jamaica, mentions the hawksbill, the green turtle, and the loggerhead only. […] The loggerhead from which his description was taken was caught near the Western Islands, many leagues out at sea.

1850 November, “Leaves from the Note-book of a Naturalist. Part XI.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLII, number CCLI, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 548:

The currest estimated number of loggerhead females nesting annually from North Carolina to Key Biscayne, Florida is 20,640 (± 6,328). This nesting level has been relatively stable since 1980 and accounts for about 98 percent of all loggerhead nesting within the continental United States.

1987 February 20, “Affected Environment”, in Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement on Listing and Protecting the Green Sea Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle and the Pacific Ridley Sea Turtle under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, [Washington, D.C.]: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, →OCLC, section III.A.1 (Loggerheads), page 33:

loggerhead sea turtle
loggerhead sea turtle#English

Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta#Translingual

The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an oceanic turtle found throughout the world.


Peking duck

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Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck.

zh-l

北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā)

During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.

1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:

As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck.[…]"Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.

2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-18, China:

A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.


nene

Borrowed from Hawaiian nēnē, which is imitative of the bird’s call.

Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes’ diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.

1980, Janet Kear, A. J. Berger, “The Hawaiian Goose or Nene”, in The Hawaiian Goose: An Experiment in Conservation, Calton, Staffordshire: T. & A. D. Poyser, →ISBN; reprinted London: T. & A. D. Poyser, 2010, →ISBN, page 42:

Today, both wild and domestic dogs are a serious threat to Hawai‘i's native wildlife. The dogs prey on both seabirds and open country birds, especially the Hawaiian goose, nēnē. However, feral dogs aren't all bad, because one of their favorite foods is rats.

1991, Susan Scott, Plants and Animals of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hi.: Bess Press, →ISBN, page 123:

Scientists think the nēnē descended from Canada geese that landed on Hawai‘i long before humans arrived. As they survived on the isolated islands for generation after generation, the geese gradually changed, becoming a new species. Today's nēnē, unlike its water-loving ancestor, is a land bird.

1993, Marion Coste, Nēnē (Kolowalu Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 20:

The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity.

2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; republished London: Folio Society, 2011, →OCLC, page 37:

Among the iconic flora and fauna found here are […] the endangered nene (Hawaiian goose). After almost going extinct, nene were reintroduced into the national park in 1962 when Boy Scouts carried geese that had been raised in captivity down into Haleakala volcano in their backpacks.

2011, Sara Benson, “Haleakala National Park”, in Maui: Must-do Hikes for Everyone (Top Trails), Birmingham, Ala.: Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 197:

Branta sandvicensis
Branta sandvicensis#Translingual

The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

Kéyah Ałkééʼ Naaznilgo Dah Ndaaʼeełídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełítsoh noodǫ́zígíí


goldeneye

/ˈɡəʊldənaɪ/

Any of several flowering plants of the subtribe Helianthinae.


seaduck

Any large duck found in coastal waters, especially those of the subfamily Merginae.


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.


pochard

Apparently originally from poach (“to poke”) + -ard. Compare poker.

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual

Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina.

Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ halchíiʼii


diving duck

Coordinate term: dabbling duck

Any of the ducks that feed mainly by diving such as pochards and scaups, of species in tribe Aythyini.


dabbling duck

One of the ducks of species in subfamily Anatinae, that feed by dabbling in shallow water, including mallards and teals.


zuisin

Probably from an Algonquian language; compare Ojibwe zhiishiib (“duck”).


goosander

Blend of goose + gander. The oldest known use is by Drayton (1622).

As they above the rest were Lords of Earth and Ayre.
The Gossander with them, my goodly Fennes doe show
His head as Ebon blacke, the rest as white as Snow,

1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 25 p. 106:

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere. They eat fish and are common on lakes and rivers.


wigeon

Early 16th century. Probably from Middle French vigeon, from Old French vigeon, vingeon (“wigeon”), from Old French vignier (“to whine or shout”) + -on (“noun suffix”).


gadwall

Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.

unknown

Origin unknown

Mareca strepera
Mareca strepera#Translingual

Anas strepera
Anas strepera#Translingual

A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).


garganey

From the Italian/Lombard language word gargenei, variant of garganello, by dissimilation of earlier *gargalella, diminutive of *gargala, ultimately from Late Latin gargala (“tracheal artery”), from the root *garg (“throat”), imitative of gargling, see also Ancient Greek γαργαρεών (gargareṓn, “uvula, trachea”).
The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner, who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium (History of Animals) of 1555.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

Anas querquedula
Anas querquedula#Translingual

A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.


shelduck

Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.


shoveler

From Middle English shoulere, shovellewre, shovelere, schoueler, alteration of earlier schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard (“shovelard”), from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar and later itself replaced by Middle English -er, but not completely certain. Probably at least influenced by the shape of the bill and its feeding behavior.

Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.


smew

unknown

Origin unknown

Mergellus albellus
Mergellus albellus#Translingual

A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.


pintail

A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.

A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.

Gallinago stenura
Gallinago stenura#Translingual

The collar is placed over the fastener pintail and the installation tool is placed over the pintail. The tool pulls on the pin drawing the parts together until the collar is swaged into locking grooves.

1994, James William Fitch, Motor Truck Engineering Handbook, page 110:

(engineering) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.


lamentation

en-noun

lamentation (countable and uncountable, plural lamentations)

Recorded since 1375, from Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.

der

Bernhard Strigel
descent from the Cross
lamentation of Christ


swanherd

A person who tends or herds swans; a keeper of swans.

Schwanenwärter

person who tends, herds, takes care of swans


scooter

→ Bengali: স্কুটার (skuṭar)

→ Catalan: escúter

→ Czech: skútr

→ Danish: scooter

→ Dutch: scooter

→ Finnish: skootteri

→ French: scooter

→ German: Scooter

→ Italian: scooter

→ Japanese: スクーター (sukūtā)

→ Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)

→ Malay: skuter

→ Norwegian Bokmål: scooter

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: scooter

→ Polish: skuter

→ Portuguese: scooter

→ Romanian: scuter

→ Spanish: escúter; scooter

→ Swedish: skoter

سْكُوتَر

type of motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame — see also motor scooter

A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.

An electric version of the kick scooter.

A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled or elderly people.

інвалі́дная каля́ска

electric scooter for disabled — see also mobility scooter

An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.

Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.

Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]

2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017, page 6:

With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters, wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, […]

2021, French Toast Catalog 2022, page 10:

A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.


swan song

Calque of German Schwanenlied(from Schwan + Lied) or Schwanengesang; from the belief that the mute swan sings before dying.

Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age):

In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wild swan-song that last night of life.

1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[…]—a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. "It's my swan-song, my retirement from literature permanently," he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.

1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain:

Je ne parle pas français. That was her swan song for me.

1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 114:

[…]McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed a swan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.

2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club:

Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]

2021 July 22, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, in The Guardian:

[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic) A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.


mute swan

So called because it is not very vocal (though not entirely mute).

A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.


garrot

A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.


Campbell

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
* As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
* (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A city in Santa Clara County, California.

A minor city in Wilkin County, Minnesota.

Former name of Kintyre, Emmons County, North Dakota.


butterball

The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

1917, Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37:

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.


scolder

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blackhead

en-noun

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

Coordinate term: whitehead

See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 215:

(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.

(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.


whitehead

A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).


Burdekin duck

Burdekin duck (countable and uncountable, plural Burdekin ducks)

From Burdekin (“a surname”); named after the Burdekin River, Queensland, which in turn was named for Mrs. Thomas Burdekin, who provided assistance to the expedition during which the river was discovered (by Europeans).

1977, Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, →ISBN (discussing 19th century cookery),
even the exotic-sounding "Burdekin duck" consists of nothing more than slices of cold beef fried in batter.

It was loaded with food; sponge-cakes each higher and lighter than the next and oozing frothy cream, plates of sandwiches, egg and lettuce, corned-beef and pickle, and ‘Burdekin Duck’ made of bacon and tomato and cheese squashed up.

2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, page 214:

You could turn corned beef into Burdekin Duck by putting strips of cold corned beef into batter, and puftalooners could be made with balls of premixed damper thrown into hot fat, and damper could be turned into brownies with sultanas and currants

2010, Jill Bowen, Kidman The Forgotten King, unnumbered page:

(Australia, uncountable, obsolete) A food dish made from leftovers or ingredients to hand, usually including corned beef.


whooper

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual


eiderdown

eiderdown (countable and uncountable, plural eiderdowns)

A great sea lifted us high and, crashing down with a deafening roar, carried us swiftly along on light foam as soft as eiderdown.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 80:

(uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.


squealer

American golden plover
American golden plover


poacher

Anas americana
Anas americana#Translingual

(US, dialect) An American wigeon (Anas americana).


anserine

en-adj

anserine (comparative more anserine, superlative most anserine)

more anserine (comparative)
most anserine (superlative)

From Latin anserīnus, from anser (“goose”).

Pertaining to a goose or geese; gooselike.

anserine skin

(medicine, obsolete) Exhibiting goose flesh.


anserine

en-noun

anserine (countable and uncountable, plural anserines)

From Latin anser (“goose”) + -ine, after German Anserin.

(biochemistry) A dipeptide compound present in birds and other vertebrates, originally isolated from goose muscle.


swansdown

swansdown (usually uncountable, plural swansdowns)

Oh, to be free of Princes' at one-thirty, of being the tiny kitten in the swansdown basket, of being the Arabian, and the grave, delighted child and the little wild creature. . . .

1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 266–267:


canvasback

1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.

The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.

1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:

Aythya valisineria
Aythya valisineria#Translingual

A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.


Canada goose

Branta canadensis
Branta canadensis#Translingual

ᑭᐦᒋ ᓂᐢᑲ (kihci-niska, literally “great goose”)


cygnine

en-adj

cygnine (comparative more cygnine, superlative most cygnine)

more cygnine (comparative)
most cygnine (superlative)

From Latin cygnus (“swan”), with English -ine.

The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character […]

1869, Elliott Coues, On the Classification of Water Birds, Merrihew & Son, published 1870, page 26:

(zoology) Being of the genus Cygnus (swan), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.

But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness...

1848, Edmund Saul Dixon, Ornamental and Domestic Poultry, page 20:

On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine.

1915, Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und […] , volume 38, page 44:

1949, G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1, page 30 alternate
...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.

Of, concerning, pertaining to, resembling, or having the characteristics of a swan or swans.


cygnine

From the Swan River, in Western Australia where the toxic plants were discovered.

(dated) An alkaloid from plants of genus Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.


barnacle goose

Because this goose nests in the far north, Europeans never saw its chicks, and invented a theory that the goose barnacle is the larval form of the barnacle goose.

Branta leucopsis
Branta leucopsis#Translingual

A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.


sheldrake

From Middle English sheld- (“parti-colored”) (akin to Middle Dutch shillede) + drake (“male duck”).

An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).


mandarin duck

Coordinate term: wood duck

Mandarin ducks usually pair for life. In Asia they are thought to be a symbol of love and good luck. Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.

2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94:

Aix galericulata
Aix galericulata#Translingual

A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.


white-fronted goose

en-noun

white-fronted goose (plural white-fronted geese)

Named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill.

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.


gwan

From various English dialects, notably Gullah.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going on.

“Aw, gwan, you slave driver,” the boy said, dashing from the room.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 199:

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of go on.

I need to get to gwan.

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going.


gwan

(neologism, rare) A hybrid between a goose and a swan, especially the offspring of a gander (male goose) and a pen (female swan).


black swan

From Middle English blak swan, calqued from a Latin quotation from Satire VI (written late 1st century – early 2nd century B.C.E.) of the Roman poet Juvenal: “Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno [a bird as rare upon the earth as a black swan]!”. Equivalent to black + swan.
Sense 2.1 (“something believed impossible or not to exist”) is from the fact that all swans were thought to have white plumage until black swans were discovered in Australia in the 17th century by Dutch explorers. Sense 2.2 (“rare and hard-to-predict event”) was popularized by the Lebanese-American author Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) in his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007): see the quotation.

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Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swans were white: are we also wrong, when we conclude that all men's heads grow above their shoulders, and never below, in spite of the conflicting testimony of the naturalist Pliny? As there were black swans, though civilised people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them, may there not also be "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders," notwithstanding a rather less perfect unanimity of negative testimony from all observers? Most persons would answer No; it was more credible that a bird should vary in its colour, than that man should vary in the relative position of his principal organs.

1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Ground of Induction”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, § 3, page 379:

If you tell me that there is or that there is not a black swan or a white raven, I want to know where you mean; and that you can only show me,—no description will answer the purpose.

1884 summer, Charles Sanders Peirce, “On the Algebra of Logic (Second Paper) [Item 22, MS 508]”, in Christian J. W. Kloesel [et al.], editors, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, volumes 5 (1884–1886), Bloomington; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 111:

The original propounder of 'all swans are white' presumably based it on a sample of hundreds or thousands; but the verifications before the Australian black swan was discovered must have run into millions

1961, Harold Jeffreys, “Estimation Problems”, in Theory of Probability (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences), 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, paragraph 3.21, page 132:

This concept of "observation" is not like that of seeing a black swan, to mention a famous classical example. New particles leave signatures in the detector that on an event by event basis cannot be distinguished by other processes (background).

1999, G. D’Agostini, “Bayesian Reasoning versus Conventional Statistics in High Energy Physics”, in Wolfgang von der Linden, Volker Dose, Rainer Fischer, Roland Preuss, editors, Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods: Garching, Germany 1998: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods of Statistical Analysis (Fundamental Theories of Physic; 105), Dordrecht, South Holland: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, footnote 19, page 166:

Cygnus atratus
Cygnus atratus#Translingual

Cygnus atratus, a swan with black plumage and a red bill which is endemic to Australia.

黒鳥

こくちょう, コクチョウ, kokuchō


ruddy shelduck

Tadorna ferruginea
Tadorna ferruginea#Translingual


domestic duck

The domesticated subspecies or form of mallard, sometimes Anas platyrhynchos domesticus or Anas platyrhynchos f. domestica.


hardhead

Aythya australis
Aythya australis#Translingual

A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí binááʼ łigaaígíí


Muscovy duck

From Muscovy Company, a trading company + duck.

Over the water swept the great harpy eagle--also a fisher like his white-headed cousin of the North; and now and then flocks of muscovy ducks made the air resound with their strong broad wings.

1847, Mayne Reid, Popular Adventure Tales:

The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:

Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."

2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:

Cairina moschata
Cairina moschata#Translingual

A large duck (Cairina moschata) which is native to Mexico, Central and South America.


koloa

The Hawaiian duck or koloa (Anas wyvilliana) has never been reduced to anything like the pitiful remnant that once represented its relatives on Laysan.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

Anas wyvilliana
Anas wyvilliana#Translingual


bean goose

They used to be known for grazing in bean-field stubbles in winter.

Anser fabalis
Anser fabalis#Translingual

Any of species Anser fabalis of grey geese, of family Anatidae.


Bewick's swan

Named after the engraver Thomas Bewick, who specialised in illustrations of birds and animals.

Cygnus columbianus
Cygnus columbianus#Translingual

A small swan, Cygnus columbianus, of the family Anatidae.


tundra swan

Still, he describes [...] the yellow-breasted chats and tundra swans that would appear in his yard, looking for seed.

2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 4:


brent goose

The first word is perhaps from branded, meaning brindled.

Branta bernicla
Branta bernicla#Translingual

(British) A small member of the goose family (Anatidae), Branta bernicla.


scaly-sided merganser

en-noun

scaly-sided merganser (plural scaly-sided mergansers)

Mergus squamatus
Mergus squamatus#Translingual

Mergus squamatus, an endangered species of merganser found in eastern Asia


common goldeneye

common goldeneye (plural common goldeneyes)

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

A medium sized sea duck, Bucephala clangula.


bufflehead

Compound of buffle (“buffalo”) + head, so called for its large head.

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola.


Barrow's goldeneye

Barrow's goldeneye (plural Barrow's goldeneyes)

Bucephala islandica
Bucephala islandica#Translingual

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala islandica

islandsk hvinand

a duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala islandica


whooper swan

The thought of life with him filled her with exultation. She could leap up, like the whooper swan, spread her silver wings, and shout her song of rapture and of defiance, like a trumpet.

1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter 7, in Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1884, page 103:

By mid-morning they are back with huge catches: birds with their necks twisted, slung from poles row upon row by their feet, or crammed alive into wooden cages, screaming with outrage, trampling each other, with sometimes a great silent whooper swan crouched in their midst.

1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Warburg, pages 78–79:

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual

A species of swan, Cygnus cygnus, of the taxonomic family Anatidae.


black-necked swan

black-necked swan (plural black-necked swans)

Cygnus melancoryphus
Cygnus melancoryphus#Translingual

The only South American species of swan, Cygnus melancoryphus.


common eider

Somateria mollissima
Somateria mollissima#Translingual

A sea duck in the eider family; Somateria mollissima.


greylag

From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).

Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.

1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:

Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.

2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:

Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.

2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:

A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.


steelhead

steelhead (plural steelheads or steelhead)


wood duck

Coordinate term: mandarin duck

A colorful North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in hollow trees.


red-breasted merganser

red-breasted merganser (plural red-breasted mergansers)

Mergus serrator
Mergus serrator#Translingual

A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.


American wigeon

American wigeon (plural American wigeons)

Anas americana
Anas americana#Translingual


rood goose

(Southwest Scotland) the barnacle goose.


tufted duck

Aythya fuligula
Aythya fuligula#Translingual


sawbill

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


barnacle

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).

der

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.

fiksaus

engineering: change made on the manufacturing floor

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.

(obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.

herkkupala

slang: good job, or snack easily obtained


swanskin

en-noun

swanskin (countable and uncountable, plural swanskins)

The skin of a swan with the down or feathers on.

A type of brushed flannel cotton twill fabric.


swan upping

swan upping (countable and uncountable, plural swan uppings)

An annual swan census in Britain in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, marked, and released.


cook someone's goose

en-verb

cook someone's goose (third-person singular simple present cooks someone's goose, present participle cooking someone's goose, simple past and past participle cooked someone's goose)

cooks someone's goose (present singular third-person)
cooking someone's goose (participle present)
cooked someone's goose (participle past)
cooked someone's goose (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cook someone's goose.wav

Various folk etymologies have been suggested, but the true etymology remains unknown.

I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of myself.

1867 September 28, Joseph Wasson, “Colonel [George] Crook’s Campaign”, in Peter Cozzens, editor, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest, volume 2, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, published 2002, →ISBN, part 1 (The Snake-Paiute War and after, 1866–72), page 63:

[W]hen is it reasonable to think that the Americans will be able to put in that immense army of three millions, fully equipped, each man with a hair mattress, a hot-water bottle, a gramophone, and a medicine chest, which they tell us will get to Berlin and ‘cook the goose’ of the Kaiser? [In a letter from F. S. Oliver to his brother.]

[1918 May 2, John Terraine, quoting Frederick Scott Oliver, “The Gambler’s Fling”, in The Great War (Wordsworth Military Library), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, page 156:

A strange, awkward thought! Had Fleur cooked her own goose by trying to make too sure?

1921 September, John Galsworthy, “The Dark Tune”, in To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 284:

"Well," remarked Dobbie succinctly, "that rather cooks his goose, doesn't it?"

1931, Anthony Gilbert [pseudonym; Lucy Beatrice Malleson], chapter 6, in The Case against Andrew Fane, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC; republished London: The Murder Room, 2004, →ISBN, section 1:

"I am afraid Bill [William Joseph Donovan] is rapidly cooking his own goose by lobbying," Dykes recorded on 4 April. "[Walter Bedell] Smith is getting completely fed up with [Donovan]."

1941 April 4, D[aniel] K. R. Crosswell, quoting Vivian Dykes, “Forging the Mold”, in Beetle: The Life of Walter Bedell Smith (American Warriors), Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, published 2010, →ISBN, part 3 (The Towering Figure—George C. Marshall), page 254:

Well I don't care if it's a thing or a mammal or a skunk, he can't sleep on our money. I'll cook that mammal's goose!

1943 October, Robert McCloskey, “The Case of the Sensational Scent”, in Homer Price, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, December 1966, →OCLC, page 18:

To express his antipathy, the lawyer manipulates the judicial process, its language and technicalities, to show that if he was formerly unprepared to serve Guillaume the promised feast, he is now eager to help him cook his own goose.

1984, Donald Maddox, “Antipathiquelin and the Rhetoric of Torts”, in Semiotics of Deceit: The Pathelin Era […], Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 95:

One false step can cook your goose for good. Before you know it, there's such a big stink that it's smeared all over the newspapers.

1987, Sholem Aleichem [pseudonym; Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich], “[The Railway Stories] The Man from Buenos Aires”, in Hillel Halkin, transl., Tevye the Dairyman and The Railway Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, [2008?], →ISBN, page 172:

(idiomatic, informal) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs


swanling

From swan + -ling, formed by analogy with duckling, gosling, etc. Compare German Schwänlein.

Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers.

2004, Pauline Somers, Dreams Within Dreams:

Slim ran over to the pond and unleashed the excited swanlings. They followed Moose and Slim to a quiet backwash of the river and glided gracefully into the water. Moose sat down on a little hillock and listened to Slim talking to the swanlings.

2007, Hubert Schuurman, People of the Swan:

The narrative concerns a female duck who hatches four dark ducklings, and when the fifth turns out to be a white “swanling,” the father duck more or less accuses his wife of adultery.

Bruno Bettelheim What this is really about is how you and your own dear swanling can rest securely in the feeling of belonging together when you experience daily life differently because others treat you differently.

2011, Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall, Inside Transracial Adoption:

So close, swanling, do not hesitate. Her eyes went to the sun hanging between night and day and then to Wulfsun. I cannot leave him to such a fate. Without me, he is a dead man.

2015, Betina Lindsey, Swan Bride: The Swan Maiden Trilogy - Book One:


swoose

The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another "swoose," has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.

1970 Dec, James J. Zigerell, “The Community College in Search of an Identity”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 41, number 9, pages 701–712:

Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a "swoose." It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a "swoose." It was a "swoose" to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent.

1979 "A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes," U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98

But Mom describes my life that year pretty accurately when she says that I had become a “swoose”- that is to say, not a swan and not a goose.

2000, Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers:

"John calls teenagers 'sweese.'" "What?" "Neither swans nor geese."

2007, Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, page 229:

(informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)


broadbill

Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).

harlekiini

bird of the family Eurylaimidae or Calyptomenidae


graylag

1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.

Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.

1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405:

With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”

2012, Mikael Aktor, “Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books”, in Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert, editors, Negotiating Rites, page 24:


bluebill

Any of the genus Spermophaga of estrildid finches found in tropical Africa.


annet

From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).

black-legged kittiwake
black-legged kittiwake

(UK, dialect, West Country, Cornwall, obsolete) A black-legged kittiwake.


velvet scoter

Melanitta fusca
Melanitta fusca#Translingual


harlequin duck

Histrionicus histrionicus
Histrionicus histrionicus#Translingual

A North American wild duck, Histrionicus histrionicus.


guck

The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck


freckled duck

The chief stronghold of the freckled duck is the Murray Darling Basin of southeastern Australia.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

Stictonetta naevosa
Stictonetta naevosa#Translingual

A moderately large, broad-bodied duck, Stictonetta naevosa, native to southern Australia.


Hottentot teal

Anas hottentota
Anas hottentota#Translingual

Anas hottentota, a species of dabbling duck.


red-crested pochard

en-noun

red-crested pochard (plural red-crested pochards)


northern shoveler

northern shoveler (plural northern shovelers)

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

Anas clypeata
Anas clypeata#Translingual

Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata, a duck breeding in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America.


musk duck

Biziura lobata
Biziura lobata#Translingual

Biziura lobata, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.


mottled duck

Anas fulvigula
Anas fulvigula#Translingual

A medium-sized dabbling duck, Anas fulvigula.


stiff-tailed duck

stiff-tailed duck (plural stiff-tailed ducks)


chestnut teal

Anas castanea
Anas castanea#Translingual

Anas castanea, a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.


Cape teal

Anas capensis
Anas capensis#Translingual

Anas capensis, a dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa


Mexican duck

Anas diazi, a dabbling duck in the genus Anas which breeds in Mexico and the southern USA.


ferruginous duck

ferruginous duck (plural ferruginous ducks)

Aythya nyroca
Aythya nyroca#Translingual

Aythya nyroca, a medium-sized diving duck from Eurasia


Labrador duck

Camptorhynchus labradorius
Camptorhynchus labradorius#Translingual

†Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.


Laysan duck

Anas laysanensis
Anas laysanensis#Translingual

Anas laysanensis, an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.


greater scaup

Aythya marila
Aythya marila#Translingual

A scaup of the species Aythya marila, a bluebill.

naalʼeełí táłtłʼááh nálnoʼí bidaaʼ dootłʼizhígíí


Baikal teal

Anas formosa, a dabbling duck that breeds within the forest zone of eastern Siberia


elke

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual

(obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).


quandy

Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.

1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother:


oldsquaw

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(dated) A medium-sized seaduck (Clangula hyemalis), a long-tailed duck.


whitewing

From white + wing. The street sweepers were so called because of the white uniforms they used to wear.


velvetbreast

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

(US, dated) The goosander (Mergus merganser).


spiketail

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(US, dialect) A pintail duck (Anas spp.).


whewer

Century, Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and the 1933 OED take it to be from whew (“(to make) a shrill whistling sound like the cry of a plover”) + -er, and early cites also call the bird the "whistling widgeon".

Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2

1634, Althorp MS. in Simpkinson, Washingtons (1860), page xxiii

Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon.

With the Fish I have put up in a Box some Water Fowl, viz. a Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins, a Widgeon, and a Whewer; which two last are Male and Female of the same kind.

1718 [1674], John Ray, Francis Willughby, Philosophical Letters Between the Late Learned Mr. Ray and Several of His Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners: To which are Added Those of Francis Willughby Esq, page 21:

Widgeons are common in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely, &c. where the male is called the widgeon, and the female, the whewer. They feed upon wild periwinkles, grass, weeds, &c. which grow at the bottom of rivers and lakes. Their flesh has a very delicious taste, not inferior to teal, or wild ducks.

1806, Thomas Smith, The Naturalist's Cabinet: Containing Interesting Sketches of Natural History; Illustrative of the Natures, Dispositions, Manners, and Habits of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles, &c. in the Known World, page 217:

the choicer fowl of mallard and widgeon (locally "whewers"), both in the Humber and the Tees, the former species being, of course, resident in the county.

1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, page 172:

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

(UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope).


ruddy duck

From ruddy (“reddish”) + duck, referring to the rust-coloured body of the male.

Except when migrating, the ruddy duck seldom flies.[…]If disturbed by a predator, the ruddy duck dives to escape.

2004, Laurie E. Likoff, The Encyclopedia of Birds, volume 1, page 802:

Since hybridization with the ruddy duck could lead to extinction of the white-headed duck, Spain began to kill its ruddy ducks. Trials to eliminate ruddy ducks from the U.K. began in 1999, and were overseen by a euphemistically named White-headed Duck Task Force.

2008, Roslyn M. Frank, Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness, volume 2, page 170:

The decision was taken, supported by conservation organizations, that it was necessary to save the white-headed duck species by exterminating all members of the ruddy duck species in Europe, which meant mainly in the UK, where there were an estimated 6000 ruddy ducks in 2000.

2010, Jacky Turner, Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society, unnumbered page:

Oxyura jamaicensis
Oxyura jamaicensis#Translingual

Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.


wamp

Probably from Massachusett wompi (“white”).


cobswan

From cob (“one who is eminent or great”) + swan.

compound

I'am not taken / With a Cob-Swan, or a high-mounting Bull / As fooliſh Leda and Europa were.

1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act II:

[T]here's plenty hint / Your pinions have received of late a shock— / Out-soar them, cobswan of the silver flock!

1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 83:


whiteback

en-noun

whiteback (countable and uncountable, plural whitebacks)

With only a head full of figures and a pocket full of indigestion tablets, a "whiteback" CPA emerges from the Rio Grande hoping for a better life in Mexico.

1979, Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, Peter Elbling ·, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989, page 159:

The " whiteback" joke is from Charlie Hill's appearance on The Tonight Show and is republished in Kenneth Lincoln's book Indian Humor as follows: " the first English immigrants were illegal aliens —' Whitebacks, we call 'em.'

1997, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, page 23:

Canadians are a friendly, open people. Therefore, their first instinct is to welcome the "whitebacks” from south of the border.

2011, Philip J. Romero, Your Macroeconomic Edge, page 69:

(humorous) A white immigrant, especially one moving to or from the United States.


swanny

From “(I) shall warrant ye”; later re-interpreted as a minced oath of swear. Compare swan.

I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !

1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:

I swanny! but that was a warm time for me, Miss—it sure was. There was that ol' she b'ar with her mouth as wide open as a church door or, so it looked to Jerry Todd.

1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Start Classics, →ISBN:

Here I was, with Miss Marie looking at me, expecting me to say what she wanted me to say, and I knew the Good Lord was looking down on me, too, expecting me to tell the truth. I swanny, I didn't know what to do.

2004, Ann Roscopf Allen, A Serpent Cherished, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 172:

Alternative form of swan (“declare, swear”)


whiffler

(obsolete) One who whiffles, or frequently changes their course or opinion.

Every Whiffler in a Laced Coat, who frequents the Chocolate-Houſe, and is able to ſpell the Title of a Pamphlet, ſhall Talk of the Conſtitution with as much Plauſibility as this very Solemn Writer, and with as good a Grace blame the Clergy for medling with Politicks which they do not underſtand.

1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 13:

(obsolete) One who argues evasively; a trifler.

(obsolete) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.

[...] Men, Wiues and Boyes, / Whoſe ſhouts & claps out-voyce the deep-mouth'd Sea, / Which like a mightie Whiffler 'fore the King, / Seems to prepare his way: [...]

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, prologue], page 91, column 1:

Whifflers, or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession […] In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did.

(obsolete) An officer who went before a procession to clear the way, by blowing a horn or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.


wavey

According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight.

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

(US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)


woolhead

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A species of duck, the bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)


whinyard

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The shoveler, a type of duck.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The pochard, a type of duck.


bluewing

(usually in the plural) Torenia (wishbone flower)


whistlewing

common goldeneye
common goldeneye#English

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

(dated, Canada, US) The common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula


whistling duck

Any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.


steamer duck

A bird of the genus Tachyeres in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.


muscovy

The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.

1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West:


buffel duck

(archaic) A kind of duck, the bufflehead.


shovelbill

A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.


swanmark

None may have a Swanmark, unless it be by Grant of the King

(UK) A mark of ownership cut on the bill of a swan.


hareld

(UK, archaic) A long-tailed duck, of species Clangula hyemalis.


baldpate

Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a baldpate covered by a yarmulke.

2013 September 16, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “What If the Best Remedy for a Broken Family Is No Family at All?”, in Pacific Standard:


snowl

(US, dated, dialect) The hooded merganser.


bergander

From berg (“burrow”) + gander (“a male goose?”). Compare German Bergente, Danish gravgaas.

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

A European duck (Tadorna tadorna), a sheldrake.


shovelard

From Middle English schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard, from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar, but not completely certain.

(UK, dialect) A kind of dabbling duck; the shoveler.


mottled mallard

mottled mallard (plural mottled mallards)


common shelduck

common shelduck (plural common shelducks)


king eider

Somateria spectabilis
Somateria spectabilis#Translingual

A large sea duck that breeds along Arctic coasts, Somateria spectabilis.


Hawaiian goose

The Hawaiian goose or nene (Branta sandvicensis) is perhaps chiefly celebrated for the great success with which it has been reared in captivity.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

Branta sandvicensis
Branta sandvicensis#Translingual


doucker

(UK, dialect) Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:


spikebill

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).


speckled-belly

greater white-fronted goose
greater white-fronted goose

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


harle

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser

(archaic) A bird, the red-breasted merganser.


spinetail

(US, dialect) A ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis).


anatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anatidae of ducks and close relatives.


dendrocygnid

(zoology) Any duck in the family Dendrocygnidae, now considered to be the anatid subfamily Dendrocygninae; a whistling duck or tree duck.


lesser scaup

Aythya affinis
Aythya affinis#Translingual


claik

you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79:


bernicle

(historical, chiefly in the plural) A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.


south-southerly

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(archaic) A long-tailed duck of species Clangula hyemalis.


whew duck

→ Welsh: chwiw (“Eurasian wigeon”)


ware goose

So called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed.


swan goose

Anser cygnoides
Anser cygnoides#Translingual

A large migratory goose (Anser cygnoides) belonging to the subfamily Anserinae.


dunter goose

All sorts of Duck and Drake, Dunter-Geese, Cleck-Geese, Ember-Geese &c. they have as in Orkney

1701, John Brand, A Brief Description of Orkney […] :


anatidaephobia

From Anatidae + -phobia. Coined by Gary Larson in 1988 in a Far Side comic.

My regards to the ducks who watched me as I worked and gently encouraged me to stay on track. Even mild anatidaephobia has its uses.

2010, Amber K, True Magick: A Beginner's Guide, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 9:

Worse than that, Thomas himself suffered from anatidaephobia, the fear that you were being watched by a duck. As a youth, every time those Aflac commercials came on, Thomas had to retreat to his room in anguish.

2013, Montgomery Trevour Halle-Bouern, Objects in the Mirror Aka Vulture Culture, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:

For example, Aflac, the insurance company, posted an ad featuring their duck mascot on the same page as an article about anatidaephobia—the fear that you are being watched by a duck (Figure 1.2).

2014, Ahava Leibtag, The Digital Crown: Winning at Content on the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN:

(humorous) The fear that one is being constantly watched by a duck.


moa-nalo

All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.

1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, “Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms”, in E. Alison Kay, editor, A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451:

1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194,
We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.

Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.

2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd edition, page 41:

The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.

2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328:

Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.


New Zealand scaup

New Zealand scaup (plural New Zealand scaups)

Aythya novaeseelandiae
Aythya novaeseelandiae#Translingual

A duck of the Anatinae subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Aythya novaeseelandiae.


brown teal

Anas chlorotis
Anas chlorotis#Translingual

A member of the dabbling duck subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Anas chlorotis.


New Zealand teal

New Zealand teal (plural New Zealand teals)


grey teal

Anas gracilis
Anas gracilis#Translingual

A species of dabbling duck, Anas gracilis, found in open wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Indonesia.


velvet duck

Melanitta fusca
Melanitta fusca#Translingual


Pekin duck

Either of two breeds of domestic duck used primarily for egg and meat production.


calloo

This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.

1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV:

The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.

2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:

(chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.


long-tailed duck

long-tailed duck (plural long-tailed ducks)