marsh harrier

kiekendief

any member of Circus resembling Circus aeruginosus

Circus aeruginosus
Circus aeruginosus#Translingual

A raptor in species Circus aeruginosus, which inhabits swampy ground.

Circus ranivorus
Circus ranivorus#Translingual

Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.

An African marsh harrier (Circus ranivorus)

western marsh harrier
western marsh harrier

A western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

Circus spilonotus
Circus spilonotus#Translingual

An eastern marsh harrier (Circus spilonotus),

Circus spilothorax
Circus spilothorax#Translingual

A Papuan harrier (Circus spilonotus spilothorax or Circus spilothorax),

Circus approximans
Circus approximans#Translingual

Circus maillardi
Circus maillardi#Translingual

A Reunion harrier (Circus maillardi maillardi or Circus maillardi)

Circus macrosceles
Circus macrosceles#Translingual

A Madagascar marsh harrier (Circus maillardi macrosceles or Circus macrosceles).


iora

Any of a group of passerine birds, of the family Aegithinidae, found in India and other parts of Asia


sedge warbler

A nearby sedge warbler competes, blaring out its more hurried, chaotic whirrs, chatters and whistles from the top of a small tree.

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus#Translingual

A small European warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, family Acrocephalidae, that winters in sub-Saharan Africa


Burdekin duck

en-noun

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.


great green macaw

great green macaw (plural great green macaws)

An endangered parrot, Ara ambiguus, found in Central America.


Cuban red macaw

Cuban red macaw (plural Cuban red macaws)

A small parrot (†Ara tricolor), formerly found in Cuba, and extinct since the late nineteenth century.


wildfowl

[…] Whoso seeks an audit here
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.

1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168:

In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.

1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81:

Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.


purple heron

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəl ˈhɛɹən/

/ˈpɝpəl ˈhɛɹən/

Ardea purpurea
Ardea purpurea#Translingual

A wading bird, Ardea purpurea, having reddish-brown plumage and found throughout southern Europe and Asia.


skirling

When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life:

(Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.


crake

en-verb

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

crakes (present singular third-person)
craking (participle present)
craked (participle past)
craked (past)

From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.

I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.

1526, The Hundred Merry Tales; Or, Shakespeare's Jest Book:

Each man may crake of that which was his own.

With him I threatned to be quite, and great things did I crake.

And he that thus doth shal have smal pleasure in his awn rightwysnes, nor no gret lust to crake of his awn deserts or meryts.

1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical memorials:

(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.


prodigal son

Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentron canadum#Translingual

A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).


francolin

/ˈfɹæŋkəlɪn/

From French francolin, from Italian francolino, of unknown origin.

Any of various terrestrial partridges of several genera in family Phasianidae, principally in tribe Gallini.


grilse

From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).

[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:

They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]

In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4:

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.


smolt

en-adj

smolt (comparative more smolt, superlative most smolt)

more smolt (comparative)
most smolt (superlative)

From Middle English smolt, smylt, from Old English smolt, smeolt (“mild, peaceful, serene, still, gentle, clear, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *smultaz, *smeltaz (“quiet, gentle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, make weak”). Cognate with Scots smolt (“calm”), Old Saxon smulto (“calmly”), Middle Dutch smolt, smout (“weak, gentle, quiet”), Middle High German smolz (“dear, lovely, beautiful, sheen”).

cog

(UK dialectal, of weather) Calm; fine; fair.


smolt

Probably an alteration of smelt, due to smolt (“smooth”). See above.

A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.


negrito

Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.


nyas

From Old French niais (“bird from the nest”), from Latin nidus (“nest”).


eyas

Alteration of nyas, by misanalysis of a nyas as an eyas.

A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry.


aberdevine

Attested since the mid 1700s, of obscure origin. Richard Coates suggests that it may derive from Welsh aderyn and draenog with substantial phonological modifications. (The alternative form aber-de-vine shows re-interpretation as a French compound with de.)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aberdevine.

Spinus spinus
Spinus spinus#Translingual

(obsolete outside dialects) The Eurasian siskin or spruce siskin, Spinus spinus, a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch.


conure

From scientific Latin Conurus (genus name), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

Any of many New World parakeets of the former genus Conurus, now reassigned to other genera in subfamily Arinae, principally Psittacara and Eupsittula.

conuro

any of many New World parakeets of the genus Conurus


sheepskin

en-noun

sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)

(countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.


wolf in sheep's clothing

wolf in sheep's clothing (plural wolves in sheep's clothing)

/ˈwʊlf ɪn ˈʃiːps ˈkləʊðɪŋ/

From Matthew 7:15 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

He ſaith, He doth not plead for all who go under the name of Miniſters in England; he fears there is many of them no better than Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, &c. Then why doth he not come out, and cry againſt them, but remain amongſt them in their Practice? For wherein can he clear himſelf of any one thing, which they are guilty of, which he confeſſes are Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? [...] I have as much ground to ſuſpect him to be one of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, as he has ground to ſuſpect his own Companions and Generation to be ſuch.

1659, Edward Burroughs [i.e., Edward Burrough], “Some of the Principles of the Quakers (Scornfully so Called by Men) Vindicated, and Proved Sound, and True, According to the Scriptures: …”, in The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: […], [London]: [Ellis Hookes], published 1672, →OCLC, page 452:

If the wolf was to be feared, the learned gentleman might rest assured it would be the wolf in sheep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotism. It was not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the serpent, that reptile that insidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution and gnaws it to the heart ere the mischief is suspected, that destruction was to be feared.

1785 February 9, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Member of Parliament for Stafford), “[Proceedings relating to the Westminster Scrutiny]”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […] (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume XXV, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1815, →OCLC, column 47:

The military power ſhould ever be kept diſtinct. We then ſee it, we know it by its proper name, we are on our guard, but when a power of a ſimilar kind intrudes itſelf upon us, under the name of a civil power, the wolf in ſheep's clothing deceives and endangers us.

1790 February 24, Arthur Browne, “[Committee on the bill to continue an act passed in the 27th year of his present majesty, entitled an act for the better execution of the law and preservation of the peace within counties at large]”, in The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons of Ireland, […] (Irish House of Commons), volume X, Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, […]; and J. Moore, […], →OCLC, page 310:

A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.

1806, Thoughts on Deceit, Margate, Kent: Printed by J. Warren, […], →OCLC, pages 15–16:

And if he preached other than the right doctrine, wherefore did his superiors in the Carthusian convent permit it? If the shepherds turn a wolf in sheep's clothing into the flock, they should not blame the sheep for being worried.

[1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 27:

[H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.

1836 December 31, Laurie Todd, “Letter from Laurie Todd: Christmas and New-Year’s-Day”, in New-York Mirror, a Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, volume XIV, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Scott & Co., printers, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:

So the tales were told ages before Æsop: and asses under lion's manes roared in Hebrew; and sly foxes flattered in Etruscan; and wolves in sheep's clothing gnashed their teeth in Sanscrit, no doubt.

[1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “The Overture—after which the Curtain Rises upon a Drinking Chorus”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 4:

The larvae, it seemed, had "passed" as aphids. Like "wolves in sheep's clothing" they appeared to have fooled the guardians of their prey.

1978 February 17, Thomas Eisner, Karen Hicks, Maria Eisner, Douglas S. Robson, “‘Wolf-in-Sheep’s-Clothing’ Strategy of a Predaceous Insect Larva”, in Science, volume 199, number 4330, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, →PMID, page 793, columns 1–2:

(idiomatic) Someone who or something which is harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant.

King James Version
wolf in sheep's clothing

ujk me lëkurë qengji

someone or something harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant

黄鼠狼给鸡拜年——没安好心

huángshǔláng gěi jī bàinián, méi ān hǎoxīn

猫被り (ねこかぶり, nekokaburi, literally “pretending to be a cat”)


ancon

From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).


neddy

From Ned + -y, Ned being a diminutive of Edward.

Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.

1919, Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia […] , Garden City Press, page 3:

1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61,
Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.

From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy-racing terms, a "stayer" (I think).

2003 April 29, Fred Nieman, “90 cadence”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):

AIRNews founder Arthur Stevens wishes Holden well adding, "We will miss his insights into the world of Aussie Rules Football and his understanding of the neddies and the Spring Racing Carnival.

2007 January 8, BearCave, “Peter Holden moving to Now FM”, in aus.radio.broadcast (Usenet):

I was up to 6 horses and figured to keep them fit and off the roids and put two in each race and get 1st and 2nd to build up the cash. Got home drunk saturday night saw a fake neddy at 4-1 so put all my $300k on it and lost.
Glad I wasn't Jean Bridges and spent $300k of my real money

2009 March 23, ^Tems^, “We need a new grid ad”, in aus.tv (Usenet):

(UK, Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.

He′d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies. It just grew from there. I′d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We′d talk racing, have a dig at each other for backing losers.

2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 272:

(Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.

Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road...

1997 December 3, Graham Byrnes, “Heartstopping moment.....”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet):

No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost.

2007 March 24, Noddy nospam, “GT40 on ebay”, in aus.cars (Usenet):

(Australia, colloquial, slang, usually in the plural) Horsepower.


jennet

From Late Middle English genet, from Old French genet, from Old Catalan genet or Old Spanish ginete (“small fast horse; light horseman”), from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanātī), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders. Doublet of Zenati.

Richmondʼs black jennet [...] is a gleaming and well-muscled creature of Spanish breed.

2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 230:


aparejo

(historical, especially military) A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.

albarda

packsaddle made of leather stuffed with hay


fairy-wren

Any of certain small, insectivorous Australian birds, incorporating fourteen members of the family Maluridae.


arara

Probosciger aterrimus
Probosciger aterrimus#Translingual

The palm (or great black) cockatoo of Australia (Probosciger aterrimus).


file snake

Peter had four barramundi and Rosie had three turtles, a possum and a fat file snake.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 259:

Any of various snakes resembling a file in texture or appearance, especially a wart snake or a non-venomous South African snake of the genus Mehelya.


ovenbird

From oven + bird, from the shape of the nest.

An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.


chilla

South American gray fox
South American gray fox


domine

From Latin dominus. Doublet of dom, dominie, dominus, and don.

doublet

A West Indian fish (Epinnula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae.


scooper

The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.

A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.

(aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.


whooper

Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus cygnus#Translingual


whitecap

Any of several birds having a white patch on the head

(US, historical) A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.


whitefish

en-noun

whitefish (plural whitefishes or whitefish)

Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola

Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.


whitewall

Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires.

1987, “The Case of the Wool's Worth”, in The Jewish Law Review: The Mishnah on damages:

The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use.

2007, George McNicholl, How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982:

I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale.

2015, Neal Murphy, East Texas Serendipity: Discovering Stories, History, and Tales from an East Texan’s Perspective:

A weird elongated creature with a whitewall haircut who had the big head as well as hands and fat thighs of the acromegalic, he was an uninhibited cross-dresser suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who constantly appeared in frocks.

2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual:

A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.

With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.

2016, Lee Child, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel:

(US, military) Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.


whitewall

She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...

Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]

Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls

1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:

To clean whitewalls on tires, spray Easy-Off Oven Clearn on the whitewalls, wait two minutes, and then rince off with a high pressure hose.

2008, Joey Green, Joey Green's Fix-It Magic: More Than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products:

They owned two of the largest houses in town; and they drove the latest Chevrolets available, 1941 models, both cars still sporting whitewall tires, which meant that the man who said he hadn't seen a whitewall since Hector was a pup was perhaps stretching the truth.

2009, William Kloefkorn, Breathing in the Fullness of Time:

(US, military) A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.


whitewall

White wall (Northants).

1885, Charles Swainson, Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, volume 32, Spotted flycatcher:

The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird.

1903, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:

Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall.

1905, Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc:

(UK, dialect, Northamptonshire, rare) The spotted flycatcher.


black and tan

black and tan (countable and uncountable, plural black and tans)

(countable) Any of various breeds of dog having black and tan colouring.

(countable, US slang, now historical) A bar, nightclub etc. which had both black and white customers, especially one that featured black entertainers.


vireo

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“I am green”).

The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257:

Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72:

2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,
This is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.


courser

From Middle English courser, Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius. By surface analysis, course + -er. Doublet of corsair and hussar.

Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius or Rhinoptilus of the family Glareolidae.


latid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Latidae.


parid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Paridae, the tits or chickadees


lates

Scientific Latin, from Ancient Greek λάτος (látos, “Nile perch”), of uncertain origin.

der

Lates niloticus
Lates niloticus#Translingual

Lates calcarifer
Lates calcarifer#Translingual

Any of various large fish of genus Lates, especially the Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and the barramundi (Lates calcarifer).


pintado

en-noun

pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

bor

We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.

1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December

Daption capense
Daption capense#Translingual


pode

From Middle English pode, pod, podde (“toad”), from a merger of Middle English pade, padde (“toad”) + tode (“toad”), equivalent to a blend of pad + toad.

By God ye be a pretty pode […]


waterbird

Any bird that inhabits a freshwater environment.


mamo

In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 421:

The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 76:

Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.


wiper

en-noun

wiper (countable and uncountable, plural wipers)

As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.

1983, Kansas Fish, Game Commission, “Fishing”, in Kansas Wildlife, page 16:

M. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation

2013 January 23, Texas State University San Marcos Department of Biology, “Morone saxatilis”, in Texas Freshwater Fishes:

With good reason, wipers are among the most stocked hybrid gamefish in the United States. They won’t rival actual stripers for overall size, but wiper find a happy medium between the revered striper and the much smaller, pesky white bass.

2021 April 23, Stephen Klobucar, “The history and mystery of hybrid fishes”, in Meat Eater:

A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.


tosa

From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred.


weakfish

weakfish (plural weakfishes or weakfish)

Calque from Dutch weekvis, weekvisch (“weakfish”), equivalent to weak + fish, because of its tender mouth.

Weakfishes have no adipose fin, such as fresh-water trouts possess:[…].

1962, International Oceanographic Foundation, Sea Secrets, volumes 6-8, page 2084:

Larger fish tend to migrate farther north than smaller ones; thus, the New England weakfish fishery may possess a higher percentage of large individuals than is characteristic of the coastwide fishery. Weakfish tend to move about in schools of similar-sized individuals.

1991, Michael R. Ross, Recreational Fisheries of Coastal New England, page 194:

The weakfish is referred to as a gray trout from Maryland south, mainly to separate it from the spotted seatrout (p. 36), which is found in the southern portion of the weakfish’s range. Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) look very much like a freshwater trout, although they exhibit few characteristics of this species.

2001, “Inshore Salt Water Fishing: Learn from the Experts at Salt Water Magazine”, in Salt Water Sportsman, page 90:

The weakfish is also a member of the Sciaenidae family, and its name refers to the tender, easily torn membrane in the fish's mouth, not its fighting ability.

2009, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Essentials of Fishing, page 73:

Any of several species of game fish, of the genus Cynoscion, found in North American waters.


squealer

American golden plover
American golden plover


vare

Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”).

1681-1682, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
His hand a vare of justice did uphold.

A wand or staff of authority or justice.


squeaker

An animal that squeaks.
Any of genus Synodontis, of catfish.


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.


pyot

(Scotland and northern UK) A magpie; a water ouzel.


pyet

Here cometh the worthy prelate, as pert as a pyet.


goatskin

goatskin (countable and uncountable, plural goatskins)

From Middle English geet skin; equivalent to goat + skin.


green monkey

An Old World monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus)


crab-eater

A cobia, a fish of species Rachycentron canadum.

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

A crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), which eats krill (not crabs).


sauropod

His most memorable work is an illustrated compendium of dinosaurian copulatory positions - a sort of reptilian Kama Sutra - that includes a “leg over” manoeuvre by the sauropods, the largest dinosaurs of all - that many consider highly dubious.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 21:

A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs


urus

Synonym of jatra (“annual village festival in India”)


leatherjacket

Any of several brightly coloured tropical fishes, of the family Balistidae, including the filefish and the triggerfish; leatherfish

Any of several Atlantic fishes, of the genus Oligoplites, that have a leathery skin; leatherjack


tyrannosaurus

tyrannosaurus (plural tyrannosauri or tyrannosauruses)

tyrannosauri (plural)
tyrannosauruses (plural)

/tɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs/

From New Latin Tyrannosaurus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “tyrant”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.


piet

From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.

We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.

1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:

piet-my-vrou

etymologically unrelated, but coincidentally also a bird


deerskin

en-noun

deerskin (countable and uncountable, plural deerskins)

The moccasin maker had a pile of deerskin on the table, waiting to be cut out.

Nichole wore a pair of deerskin gloves because she said she could feel more through them.

(uncountable) Leather made from deer hide.


goatfish

goatfish (plural goatfishes or goatfish)

Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.


greenie

From green + -ie. Environmentalist sense first attested in Australia in 1973, referring to trade unionists who supported green bans.


doeskin

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

(countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.


duckbill

duckbill eel

Nettastoma parviceps, or Nessorhamphus ingolfianus

duckbill ray

Aetobatus narinari or Pteromylaeus bovinus

duck-billed platypus
duck-billed platypus

Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).


surgeonfish

surgeonfish (plural surgeonfishes or surgeonfish)

surgeonfishes (plural)
surgeonfish (plural)

Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.

doktervis

any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae


stockfish

stockfish (countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

From Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”). Equivalent to stock + fish.

der

So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.

We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed

1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations:

A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.


stockfish

en-noun

stockfish (plural stockfishes or stockfish)

From Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis.

(South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)


saki

Compare French saki and Portuguese saki, ultimately probably from a Tupian name sagui, compare sagoin.

Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile.


Chihuahua

/t͡ʃɪˈwɑːwɑː/

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish Chihuahua. The dog is named after the state.

Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · Mexico · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas

A city, the state capital of Chihuahua, Mexico


tercelet

Inherited from Middle English tercelet, from Old French tercelet; equivalent to tiercel + -et.

In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;

1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:

A male falcon, especially a peregrine falcon or goshawk; a tiercel.


philomel

A musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel-wire strings.


clowder

A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).

A Brooklyn friend who persists in feeding the host of creatures - including me - who appear at her door will be delighted to know that the most nonchalant recipients of her largesse may be referred to as a clowder of cats.

1984 15 April, Nelson Bryant, “Bevies of Terms Befuddle Prides”, in The New York Times

Real cat fights are rare in established clowders. So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats.

2007, Kathryn Soper, Cat Wrangling Made Easy:

2010, The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
Sheldon: Clowder.
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.

2011, M.D. Pueppke, Fuzzy the Cat, The One and Only, “Getting on terms with the terms”
How ‛bout organizing a party of clowder chowder. You know, big servings of chowder for the cat clowder.


ballotade

(dressage) A leap of a horse so that when its four feet are in the air simultaneously and aligned.


pompano

From Spanish pámpano (“Stromateus fiatola”). Compare pomfret.

Any of various carangid fish, of the genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris, the African pompano, from coastal parts of the North Atlantic.


poacher

Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.

Anas americana
Anas americana#Translingual

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


wide-awake

en-adj

wide-awake (comparative more wide-awake, superlative most wide-awake)

more wide-awake (comparative)
most wide-awake (superlative)


black redstart

Phoenicurus ochruros
Phoenicurus ochruros#Translingual

A small passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, from south and central Europe


foo dog

Possibly a Western invention, from Mandarin 福 (fú, “good fortune”) + English dog. There is no similar word in Chinese itself that uses the word 福, but see English foo and Foo. Compare also Chinese 佛 (“Buddha”), pronounced fo or fu in some varieties.

A stylized lion statue similar to those usually placed in male and female pairs outside imperial Chinese palaces, tombs, temples, etc.


dovekie

From dove + -ock + -ie, a double diminutive.

A small black and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk.


ibon

The single species of ibon, the Cinnamon Ibon, is a small passerid sparrow in the monotypic genus Hypocryptadius found only on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

2022, Susan Myers, The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names, page 172:

cinnamon ibon (Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus)


razorback

/ˈɹeɪzɚˌbæk/

/ˈɹeɪzəˌbæk/

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bamboo partridge

en-noun

bamboo partridge (plural bamboo partridges)

Any of several spurred partridges, of the genus Bambusicola, that inhabit China.


hill partridge

Any partridge of the genus Arborophila, of which numerous species inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.


apatosaur

From scientific Latin Apatosaurus (genus name).

A large, herbivorous, gregarious sauropod dinosaur, of the genus Apatosaurus, from Jurassic North America; it had a long neck and tail.

apatosaure

large, herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus


chazzer

From Yiddish חזיר (khazer), from Hebrew חזיר (hazír).

(slang) A police officer, especially one who is corrupt.


brontosaurus

brontosaurus (plural brontosauruses or brontosauri)

brontosauruses (plural)
brontosauri (plural)

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -saurus.

der

One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; a Brontosaurus.


coonskin

en-noun

coonskin (countable and uncountable, plural coonskins)


gade

Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.


mourning dove

Zenaida macroura
Zenaida macroura#Translingual

A grey-coloured dove, Zenaida macroura, that has a mournful call, native to North America


doubletree

a device that connects two horses to a wagon or other implement. The tugs of a harness are connected to a singletree, two of which are connected to a doubletree, which, in turn, is connected to the implement.


tetrapod

Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods; especially any member of the superclass Tetrapoda


cattery

Coordinate term: kennel

A place where cats board when their owners are on holiday.


chimaera

A variant of chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera.

A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin


phorusrhacid

Phorusrhacids have excellent eyesight, so as the Earth continues its path around the sun, and the seasons change, the darkness will not be an encumbrance.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 90:

Any of the extinct flightless birds of the family Phorusrhacidae, which inhabited South America from the early Cenozoic era until about 0.1 million years ago.


Maine Coon

Japanese: メインクーン

Russian: мѐйн-ку́н (mèjn-kún)

desc

Thai: เมนคูน

Thai: เมนคูน

The attribute “Maine” is after the region where the breed originally became popular. For the second part, there are several theories. The dominant one is that it refers to a resemblance of the breed to the raccoon, leading some to propose the theoretical impossibility of the cat being a crossbreed with the raccoon. Another theory is that the name derives from a legendary Captain Tom Coon, who is said to have brought over such exotic cats.

A large, fluffy semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed that originated in Maine.


cutwater

Rynchops niger
Rynchops niger#Translingual

A black skimmer; a sea bird of the species Rynchops niger, that flies low over the sea, "cutting" the water surface with its lower mandible to catch small fish.


dicky

→ Urdu: ڈِکّی (ḍikkī), ڈِگّی (ḍiggī)

→ Pashto: ډِګّۍ (ḍiggay)

From dick + -y (diminutive suffix).
* In cover/apron senses: perhaps from English dialect dick (“leather apron”) + -y; perhaps from Dutch dek (“a cover”).


curry comb

/ˈkʌɹiˌkəʊm/


game bird

A bird that is hunted for sport, especially one used for food.


appaloosa

Ellipsis of Appaloosa cat, Apaloosa catfish.
Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is Choctaw, the second element of it being losa (“black”); the first element is variously supposed to be a term for "head" or "skull", "leggings", "moccasins", or "body".

ellipsis

A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.

2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141:

On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish.

2008, Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time, page 167:


cuddy

Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction from Dutch kajuit (“cabin”).

folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:

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

(Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.


cuddy

From Scots cuddie; compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod.

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual


cuddy

From buddy, with the initial "B" replaced with "C" in Crip slang.

I can't lie, I like to get high and figure-8 when I drive / Blow doja rope in the sky for all my cuddies that died

1996 April 23, “Get Right”, in Untouchable, performed by Mac Mall ft. LeVitti:

I could never imagine myself raising my hand to hit my Jasmine. She's my cuddy. We practically grew up together.

2012, Zonie Felder, January Jackson & Friends: The Premiere, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:

Good night to my cuddies.. meek.. drake.. the ghostwriter and el chapo

2015 July 22, @kevinedwardsjr, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-06-15:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.


spotted eagle ray

en-noun

spotted eagle ray (plural spotted eagle rays)

A large ray, Aetobatus narinari, that inhabits benthic waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.

обыкнове́нный пятни́стый орля́к

A large ray, of the orders Aetobatus narinari


paycock

1924, Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock:

The great Irish joiant, Fann Mac Cuil, lived to be a middle-aged man, without ever meeting his match, and so he was as proud as a paycock.

2000, Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts:

... find some impeccable prose in this newsgroup if you hold the noise >down and pay attention instead of strutting around like a bloomin' paycock.

2000 June 17, Bill Palmer, “Clarification Of Term "Redneck"”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(nonstandard, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of peacock.


headpiece

Near-synonym: head

The top piece or part of any of various things.


blackeye

A basic coffee drink consisting of any size coffee with two shots of espresso added.


sailfish

sailfish (plural sailfishes or sailfish)

A fish of the genus Istiophorus, having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.


slumgullion

slumgullion (countable and uncountable, plural slumgullions)

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Uncertain, but said to derive from slime and Scots gullion (“swamp; cesspool”). Attested from the late nineteenth century in reference to a watery beverage (see quotation below). Compare Irish góilín (“a creek; a small inlet”).

“Say...if anybody cares, this vat of slumgullion is as ready as it will ever be.”

1981, Julian May, The Many-Colored Land:

A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.

There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business [of preparing sperm whale], but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion[…] It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.

1892, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 394:

The “slumgullion” and “lipperings” or “dreenings” of the blubber—consisting of a mixture of the blood which issues from the fat-lean and the salt water and oil which flows from the blubber while the men are handling it as they hoist it aboard ship, stow it away, and prepare it for the try-pots—though discarded in the palmy days of whaling, are now carefully husbanded and amalgamated.

1904, Charles H. Stevenson, “Aquatic products in arts and industries”, in Report of the Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries, page 198:

The slide received its name from a seafaring man who was reminded of slumgullion, the yellow residue from the blubber of a butchered whale.

1996, Lee Gregory, Colorado Scenic Guide: Southern Region, Slumgullion Earthflow, page 142:

slobgollion

A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.


guide dog

Coordinate term: herding dog

A dog that is trained to be of assistance to a vision-impaired or hearing-impaired person and is thus able to guide them.

gos pigall

dog that is trained to be of assistance to a blind person


bearskin

bearskin (countable and uncountable, plural bearskins)

(countable) A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.


gavial

From Hindi घड़ियाल (ghaṛiyāl). Doublet of gharial.

Cuvier had begun studying the fossils of crocodiles found near Caen and Honfleur in France. (They were, in fact, gavials, fine-jawed crocodiles that are nowadays found in India).

2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, “Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution”, in Tiiu Ojasoo, transl., [1997, Les avatars du gène: La théorie néodarwinienne de l'évolution], page 28:

Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs, gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles.

2006, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Ravenous Reptiles, page 19:

Gavials (or gharials) are found only on the northern Indian subcontinent, where most are riverine, being best adapted to calmer areas in deep fast-flowing rivers.

2011, Joseph T. Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology: Investigating the Animal World, page 415:

The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae.


woolly mammoth

The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204:

Mammuthus primigenius
Mammuthus primigenius#Translingual

A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.


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.


featherweight

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Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:

A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.


ookpik

(Canada) A handicraft stuffed toy owl, often made from wolf fur, sealskin, or similar materials.


scrod

One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.
Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).

(New England) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.


rhesus monkey

Macaca mulatta
Macaca mulatta#Translingual


bluenose

(US, Australia) A trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)


loggerhead turtle

loggerhead turtle (plural loggerhead turtles)

Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta#Translingual

A large, carnivorous marine turtle, Caretta caretta, found in warm seas


rhesus macaque

A monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.


native monkey

1892: James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wiradhurri, Appendix D of John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
Barrandang—a native monkey.

It forms the genus Phascolarctos, and is called by the colonists “native bear” or “native monkey.”


mola

The classic mola is pure applique and is distinguished by alternating bands of color.

1977, Rhoda L. Auld, Molas: What they are, How to make them, Ideas they suggest for creative appliqué, page 67:

A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique.


schoolie

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.

1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176:

Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.

2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78:

If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338:

But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.

2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17:

(Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.

leaver

senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations

1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,
Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.

Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.

2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150:

Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88:

(US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.

(equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse


beccafico

beccafico (plural beccaficos or beccaficoes)

beccaficos (plural)
beccaficoes (plural)

Sylvia hortensis
Sylvia hortensis#Translingual

(obsolete) A small bird, Sylvia hortensis, figpecker.


galline

en-adj

galline (comparative more galline, superlative most galline)

more galline (comparative)
most galline (superlative)

(zoology) of, or pertaining to, the chicken


cat-flap

Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.

1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, →ISBN, page 137:

1985, Derek Albert Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales (in his introduction to Chaucer's Miller's Tale), Routledge (UK), →ISBN, p. 182,
We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.

While she's distracted, Batman and Robin make heroic, synchronised leaps off the fridge onto the lino and crash hell for leather, one after the other, through the cat-flap. The cat-flap's plastic frame collapses in pieces on the floor behind them.

2006, Robert Graham, Holy Joe, Troubador, →ISBN, page 141:


meadowlark

Anthus pratensis
Anthus pratensis#Translingual

Your voice is like a meadowlark / But your heart is like an ocean / Mysterious and dark

1976, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”, in Desire:

Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas.


Chinese hamster

en-noun

Chinese hamster (plural Chinese hamsters)

Any of species Cricetulus griseus of hamsters originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia.


American cocker spaniel

American cocker spaniel (plural American cocker spaniels)

English cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel

A sporting dog of a breed ranging between 18 and 30 lbs., originally bred in Britain as the English cocker spaniel for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting. Breed divided by colors: black, sable, parti, tri, and ASCOB.


good egg

Probably a humorous antonym of bad egg (“someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue”).

The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth, […]

1915, Good Housekeeping, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: Phelps Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 371:

Tom speaks: "I have a girl friend I want you to meet. She's a good egg."

1942, The Texas Outlook, volume 26, Austin, Tex.: Texas State Teachers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

Johnny Parker is in town. I like Johnny. He's a big shot in pictures and he's a good egg.

1944, James T[homas] Farrell, To Whom It May Concern: More Stories, Garden City, N.Y.: The Sun Dial Press, →OCLC, page 23:

In contrast, Saito […] was one of the good eggs … He would let us rest whenever the coast was clear and even shared the odd cigarette.

1997, Brereton Greenhous, “Liberation”, in “C” Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, 1941–1945 (Canadian War Museum Historical Publication; no. 30), Toronto, Ont., Oxford: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 141:

"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you." "He is a bad egg. We stick to good''' eggs."

2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017:

Drogon sniffs Jon [Snow]—and Dany [Daenerys Targaryen] apparently doesn't care enough about Jon's life to get off Drogon so she can witness their interaction on the other side of his fat neck and make sure her son isn't eating his cousin—and seems to sense he's a good egg at the least and quite possibly that he's a Targaryen.

2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown Offers One Last Game-changing Secret as Game Of Thrones Goes behind Enemy Lines (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-04:

(British, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.


lone wolf

I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?

1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes:

You'll never mix in. You'll be a lone wolf. I seen that right off. Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.

(figuratively) A person who avoids the company of others; a loner; an independent or solitary person.


chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk

chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk (plural chestnut-flanked sparrowhawks)

Accipiter castanilius
Accipiter castanilius#Translingual

A bird, Accipiter castanilius, found in the forests of Lower Guinea


calico cat

(US) A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat.


Australian Shepherd

Australian Shepherd (plural Australian Shepherds)

Selectively bred shepherding dogs mainly of European stock, misnamed from some interbreeding of Australian dogs imported to California during the Gold Rush.

A type of herding dog originating in areas around and in California.


working dog

(cynology) Any breed of dog developed primarily to assist humans in performing tasks, such as farming, controlling livestock, law enforcement, or assisting the blind.


demoiselle

Borrowed from French demoiselle. The bird is so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. Doublet of damsel, doncella, and donzella.


pye

(zoology) Ellipsis of pye-dog (an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts).


jumbo

en-noun

jumbo (countable and uncountable, plural jumbos)

From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).


jumbo

Returning to the villa, we were greeted by a party which frightened the boys. It was the Moco Jumbo and his suite. The Jumbo was on stilts, with a head, mounted on the actor's head, which was concealed: the music was from two baskets, like strawberry baskets, with little bells within, shook in time. The swordsman danced with an air of menace, the musician was comical, and Jumbo assumed the "antic terrible," and was very active on his stilts.

1806, William Young, “A Tour through the Several Islands of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Antigua, Tobago, and Grenada, in the Years 1791 & 1792”, in Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. […] In Four Volumes, volume IV, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed and sold by James Humphreys, […], →OCLC, page 257:

[A]nother Krooman came hurrying up, holding out a wooden image with a few bits of grass round its neck, and exclaiming, "Wurra! Wurra! Jumbo hang in fetische-house, sure he make much finish die." […] Jumbo was an uncouthly-carved figure of a man, about a foot in height, sitting cross-legged like a tailor, with ears preposterously large, the Kroo mark down the forehead and nose, and a piece of looking-glass fixed in the thorax and abdomen.

1845 April, “Delta” [pseudonym], “Krooman versus Boobie. A Scene at Fernando Po.”, in P. L. Simmonds, editor, Simmond’s Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, volume IV, number 16, London: Simmonds & Ward, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 487–488:

(paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).


Siberian Husky

Siberian Husky (plural Siberian Huskies)

(zoology) A medium-sized spitz breed of dog originally used for herding reindeer and pulling sleighs.


nandu

From French nandou from Spanish ñandú from Guaraní ñandu guasu.


quetzalcoatlus

From the genus name Quetzalcoatlus, based on Classical Nahuatl Quetzalcōātl.

A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.


backstretch

At the time appointed to start [2 1 2 P.M.], the horses made their appearance on the track, and were soon after called up by the judges for the race. They were startd at six minutes before three o'clock, the pacer having the pole, and leading round the first turn. On the backstretch he waited for the trotter, and let him take sides with him, it being apparent at this early stage that [George] Spicer did not intend to go any faster than the trotter would make him, at the same time keeping the trotter on the ouside all the way round, thereby making him go a greater distance in the race.

1853 November 26, “Ten Mile Race in Centreville, L.I.”, in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion, volume V, number 22 (number 126 from the start), Boston, Mass.: F[rederick] Gleason, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Sts., →OCLC, page 340, column 1:

This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.

1996, Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs, “Prologue”, in The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story (Sports and Entertainment), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).

back straight

Dominic Gatto liked to have someone at the track to represent him when one of his horses raced at Arlington Park or Belmont or Prescott Downs. Someone to relay a word to the jockey, keep a sharp eye on the trainer, distribute tips to the backstretch workers who were made to understand that Mr Dominic appreciated their services.

1997, Cary Fagan, chapter 9, in Sleeping Weather, Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 71:

When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.

2012, Krista Michelle Breen, “Quicksand”, in Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, 4th edition, Rockwood, Ont.: Groundskeeper's Cottage Press, →ISBN, page 130:

(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.


horse

horse (countable and uncountable, plural horses)

→ Maori: hōiho

→ Sranan Tongo: asi

→ Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car. Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

you can't put the shit back in the horse

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms

1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:

(nautical) Type of equipment.
A jackstay.


horse

en-verb

horse (third-person singular simple present horses, present participle horsing, simple past and past participle horsed)

horses (present singular third-person)
horsing (participle present)
horsed (participle past)
horsed (past)

From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).

inh

"Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"

1958, Gay Gaer Luce, Cross Your Heart, page 181:

"Why don't we stop horsing and get down to cases, Lou?" Mike Davey growled.

2019, Frank Kane, Red Hot Ice: A Johnny Liddell Mystery, page 117:


horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of both words.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:


marbled polecat

en-noun

marbled polecat (plural marbled polecats)

Vormela peregusna, a polecat found from Eastern Europe to parts of China, with yellow and black markings on its back.


garfish

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From Middle English garfysche, equivalent to gar (“spear”) + fish.

(especially US, Canada) Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.


seal point

A dark brown area of fur on the ears, face, legs, and tail of a Siamese cat.


chevrotain

/ˈʃɛvɹəˌteɪn/

Borrowed from French chevrotain, chevrotin (“ruminant of the family Tragulidae”), the diminutive of Old French chevrot (“young goat, kid”), itself a diminutive of chievre (“goat”) (modern French chèvre (“she-goat”)) + -ot (diminutive suffix). Chievre is derived from Latin capra (“she-goat”), from caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“billy goat, he-goat”)) + -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts of masculine nouns).

der

To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.

1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 76:

Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.

peulandôk

any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae


ringed seal

Pusa hispida, an earless seal inhabiting Arctic and subarctic coasts.


wels catfish

Silurus glanis
Silurus glanis#Translingual

A scaleless fresh-water catfish (Silurus glanis), of much of temperate western Eurasia, recognizable by its broad, flat head and wide mouth.


elephant seal

Large marine mammals of the genus Mirounga, the largest of the pinnipeds.


fur seal

A marine mammal of either of the genera Arctocephalus or Callorhinus of the eared seal family Otariidae, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.


zebrine

en-adj

zebrine (comparative more zebrine, superlative most zebrine)

more zebrine (comparative)
most zebrine (superlative)


zebroid

A cross between a zebra and any other equine animal, but especially a horse.


litter box

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Pregnant women are often advised to have someone else clean the litter box to reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.

A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with kitty litter, sand, clay chips, etc.


shorebird

A bird, or species of birds, that is found near the edge of bodies of water.


shoebill

The Shoebill is distinctive in many aspects of its biology, and is thus, we feel, most appropriately placed in its own family, the Balaenicipitidae (L. Buxton et al. 1978, Kahl 1979a). The fact that we have included it in this book, while excluding the Hamerkop, indicates that we believe the Shoebill to be closer to the storks (Kahl 1967b, 1979c); however the jury remains out as to how close.

1992, James Hancock, James A. Kushlan, M. Philip Kahl, Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World, published 2010, unnumbered page:

Nevertheless, Birdlife International recently classified it as near-globally threatened, and it is classed as CITES Appendix 2, which means that trade in shoebills, or their capture for any harmful activity, is forbidden by international law.

2009, Philip Briggs, Janice Booth, Rwanda, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 405:

The monstrous and awesome shoebill is possibly the most bizarre bird on the African continent.

2014, Jamie Frater, Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Lists, page 605:

Balaeniceps rex
Balaeniceps rex#Translingual

Balaeniceps rex, a tall wading bird related to the stork, native to tropical African swamps; the sole species of the family Balaenicipitidae.


thunderbird

The golden whistler, an Australian insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis, formerly Pachycephala gutturalis), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.


cropper

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A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.


cat box

Pregnant women are often advised to have someone else clean the cat box to reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.

I'm in advertising, you know. Oh, yes. I designed the ad campaign that put those pictures of missing children on bags of kitty litter. Every time you change the cat box, there are those little faces looking up at you. It has to help. Think about it.

1985 December 21, Larry Hitt, “Perfect Couple Creation”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 7:

A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with sand, clay chips, etc.


cuculine

cuculine (comparative more cuculine, superlative most cuculine)

more cuculine (comparative)
most cuculine (superlative)

On the grassy plain below noble game, zebra and koodoo, began to appear; while Guinea fowl, and partridge, quail, green pigeon, and the cuculine bird, called in India the Malabar pheasant, became numerous.

1861, The Theological and Literary Journal, page 645:


sciurine

From Latin sciūrus (“squirrel”), from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”), from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”), + -ine.

der

A member of the squirrel subfamily of Sciurinae.


didine

en-adj

didine (comparative more didine, superlative most didine)

more didine (comparative)
most didine (superlative)


didine

(ornithology, obsolete) A bird of the columbid subfamily Raphinae.


hawkfish

en-noun

hawkfish (plural hawkfish or hawkfishes)

Any of various tropical, perciform marine fish of the family Cirrhitidae, found around the coral reefs of the western and eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.


hen-hawk

The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.

1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 108:

(informal) Any hawk supposed to prey on poultry.


oscine

Of or pertaining to the songbirds (suborder Passeri).


Moby-Dick

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The elusive white whale hunted in this novel.


hawksbill

From hawk + -s- + bill; so named because its sharp beak is reminiscent of a hawk's.

Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata#Translingual

A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.


sharkskin

sharkskin (countable and uncountable, plural sharkskins)

A shiny fabric made from synthetic fibers.


characin

Any of many diverse fish, of the order Characiformes, related to the carp and catfish and including the tetra, which were formerly all included in the family Characidae.


malbrouck

An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.


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:


New World monkey

New World monkey (plural New World monkeys)

Coordinate term: Old World monkey

Any monkey from any of the five families of primates that are found in Central America and South America: the Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.

নয়া জাহান বান্দর

families of primates found in Central and South America


sheatfish

sheatfish (plural sheatfishes or sheatfish)

The wels catfish (Silurus glanis), a catfish, the largest freshwater fish in Europe.


globefish

globefish (plural globefishes or globefish)

Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish, that can inflate itself to form a globe.


kipunji

“Make a mess, such a mess these kipunji, make a mess, they swing over looking for fruit and make such a mess in me house.”

2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 582:

An arboreal Old World monkey of species Rungwecebus kipunji from Tanzania.


uakari

Both the common name uakari and the genus name Cacajao are believed to have originated from indigenous languages.

Any of several arboreal monkeys, of the genus Cacajao, from the Amazon basin.


quarter horse

Named for its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less.

I'm getting ready to go out and play the quarter horses.

1980, Charles Bukowski, letter, 4 November, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 158

When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.

1992, Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler, Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628:

An American breed of horse originally bred for short-distance racing.


milch cow

From Middle English melche cow, mylche cowe.

A cow that produces milk (having had at least one calf).

(military, slang) A German WWII submarine designed to carry large cargoes of supplies and transfer them to other submarines.


sidesaddle

The technique of riding a horse with both legs on the same side of the horse.


skimmer

A device that skims.
A sieve-like, slotted spoon.

Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.


goblin shark

Calque of Japanese 天狗鮫 (tenguzame), from 天狗 (tengu, “a mythical creature with a long nose”) + 鮫 (same, “shark”).

The long flexible caudal fin, without a ventral lobe, the soft, flabby body, and small, soft paired and unpaired fins, suggest that the goblin shark is a relatively inactive, slow swimming species with a density close to seawater.

2001, Leonard J. V. Compagno, Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species, page 70:

Humans rarely see the goblin shark and we do not have a lot of information about them. Goblin sharks have a long, flat, pointy snout and their jaws protrude when they are eating. This makes the goblin shark look very unusual.

2007, Kimm Bellotto, Katie Kubesh, Niki McNeil, Sharks, page 8:

From the few goblin sharks that have been caught and studied, scientists believe them to be ambush predators that sit and wait for prey such as small midwater fishes, crustaceans, and squids.

2011, Ellen Prager, Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter, page 102:

Mitsukurina owstoni
Mitsukurina owstoni#Translingual

A species of mackerel shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, that has a long snout-like protrusion from its forehead and grows to 3.8 meters in length.

ഗോബ്ലിൻ ഷാർക്ക്

gōbliṉ ṣāṟkkŭ


didapper

From Middle English dydoppar, from earlier douedoppe, deuedep, dyuedap with agentive suffix -er, from Old English dūfedoppa (“diving bird, pelican”), from dūfan (“to dive”) + *doppa (“diver”) (whence modern English dop (“diving bird”)). By surface analysis, dive + dop + -er.

der

The misery of man may fitly be compar'd to a Didapper, who when she is under water, past our sight, and indeed can seem no more to us, rises again; […]

1679, Francis Beaumont, Fifty comedies and tragedies, page 483:

A small diving water bird frequenting rivers and fresh waters, specifically a little grebe or dabchick.


pleco

Shortened from plecostomus, from translingual Plecostomus.

Any of several tropical American fish, of the family Loricariidae, popular in aquaria for their ability to clean tanks by eating algae growth.


pit bull terrier

en-noun

pit bull terrier (plural pit bull terriers)

A medium-sized dog historically bred for dogfighting.


grunion

Uncertain, but probably from American Spanish gruñón (“grunter, grouch”), from gruñir (“to grunt”).

Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides.


carnivoran

(zoology) Any member of the order Carnivora.


Japanese giant salamander

Japanese giant salamander (plural Japanese giant salamanders)

a large salamander of species Andrias japonicus, native to Japan, growing up to a meter in length.

日本大鯢

large species of salamander native to Japan


raad

Borrowed from Arabic رَعْد (raʕd, “thunder”).

"It might reasonably be expected," says Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, "that the raad, or electric fish of the Nile, would be one of the most sacred, and forbidden for food; and it seems not to be represented among those caught in the ancient fishing scenes." He adds regarding the raad:—"It is a small fish, and the one I saw measured little more than a foot long by four inches in depth, but it had the power of giving a very strong shock. It is the Melapterurus electricus, and may have been the ancient Latus."

1858, George Wilson, “On the electric fishes as the earliest electric machines employed by mankind”, in The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, volume 3:


bad egg

An allusion to an egg that has gone bad or turned rotten.

(literal) An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg.


saddleback

A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.

great black-backed gull
great black-backed gull

The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67:

(New Zealand) The bird Philesturnus carunculatus.


birdbath

A shallow basin, sometimes ornamental, filled with water for wild birds to drink from or bathe in.


kid leather

kid leather (countable and uncountable, plural kid leathers)

Leather made from the skin of a young goat.


bitterling

From German Bitterling, calque from Latin amārus (“bitter”), equivalent to bitter + -ling. Compare grayling, fingerling.

Any of various species of small cyprinid fish in the genus Rhodeus.


porpentine

[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 257, column 2:

Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.

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


calk

en-verb

calk (third-person singular simple present calks, present participle calking, simple past and past participle calked)

calks (present singular third-person)
calking (participle present)
calked (participle past)
calked (past)

From French calque, ultimately derived from Latin calcō (“I trample”). Doublet of calque.

To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.


brachiosaurus

From brachio- + -saurus; literally “arm lizard”, relating to the great length of its forelegs compared to its hindlegs.

A large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, Brachiosaurus altithorax, which lived during the Jurassic period.


flaps

Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth.

1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London: John Wolfe, page 163:

If there be any ſwelling betweene the eares, it is a ſigne of the Pole-evil: ſwelling under the eare, a ſigne of the Vives; and ſwelling in the mouth, a ſigne either of Canker, Flaps, Lampaſſe.

1610, Gervase Markham, “Of the signes of sicknesse, and of what nature it consisteth”, in Markhams Maister-peece. Contayning All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses: […], 5th edition, London: […] Nicholas and Iohn Okes, […], published 1636, →OCLC, 1st book (Containing All Cures Physicall, […]), page 32:

Theſe Giggs, Bladders or Flaps, proceed either from eating too much Graſs, or that which is bad; or Hay or Provender that is rough and pricking.

1726, N. B. Philippos, The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary, London: J. Darby, page 247:

The Flaps are a ſpungy, fleſhy, fungous ſubftance, ſituated juſt below the grinders on the lower jaw, adjoining the cheek, on the part where the bit reſteth upon. The above is ſo troubleſome to a Horſe and ſo ſore, that he will often catch the Flaps between his grinders, which chafes him much, and prevents him to grind his food, and cauſes him to ſlaver and ſlober much.

1784, William Griffiths, A Practical Treatise on Farriery, Wrexham, Wales: R. Marsh, page 119:

These likewise sometimes enlarge during catarrh or imflammation of the mouth, and are called gigs, and bladders, and flaps in the mouth.

1843, William Youatt, The Horse, London: Chapman & Hall, page 206:

(farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.


stargazer

/ˈstɑɹˌɡeɪzɚ/

A stargazer is a frightening fish by any srtetch of the imagination, but not until the day I first saw one in its own world did I understand its true nature.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 187:

(zoology) A perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae.

uranoscopo

a perciform fish in the family Uranoscopidae


chondrichthyan

Any of the cartilaginous fish, especially those of the class Chondrichthyes.


cathouse

Alot^([sic]) of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.

2012, Chrystal Parker, Daily Dose of Dogs (Aka Cats with Your Coffee), page 490:

(rare, literally) Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.


common minnow

Phoxinus phoxinus
Phoxinus phoxinus#Translingual

A species of minnow widespread in the fresh waters of northern Eurasia, Phoxinus phoxinus.


loach

Wikispecies
From Middle English loche, from Old French loche, further origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuca (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug.

A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea.

Any true loach, of the family Cobitidae.

A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes: Botiidae, Balitoridae, and Gyrinocheilidae.


loach

From the pronunciation of the acronym LOH (“loach”).

(slang) Synonym of LOH (light observation helicopter)


diplodocus

From Ancient Greek διπλόος (diplóos, “double”) and δοκός (dokós, “beam”).

uder

Any of several herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Diplodocus, known as fossils from the late Jurassic in North America.


camelid

(zoology) Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.

tevefélék

any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuña


sculpin

From earlier scorpene, from Latin scorpaena, from Ancient Greek σκόρπαινα (skórpaina, “kind of fish”), diminutive of σκορπίος (skorpíos). Compare scorpionfish.

der

A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools.


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.


caecilian

Today we have just three major lineages of amphibians - the anurans (frogs and toads), the newts and salamanders, and the worm-like caecilians, all of which can trace their ancestry back to long before the dinosaurs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 50:

Any of a group of burrowing amphibians (order Gymnophiona or Apoda) that resemble earthworms or snakes.


anseriform

en-adj

anseriform (comparative more anseriform, superlative most anseriform)

more anseriform (comparative)
most anseriform (superlative)

For more than a century anseriform birds were considered to have been closely related to, and to have originated from, the game fowl of the order Galliformes.

2004, Peter F. Murray et.al., Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime:

(ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the order Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.


catbird

From cat + bird, because its cry is said to resemble that of a cat.

The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 185:

Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes.


hound shark

Any of several small sharks, of the family Triakidae, found throughout the world.


ground shark

Any member of the order Carcharhiniformes, the largest order of sharks with over 270 species.


leopard shark

A hound shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive markings; it is found in the coastal waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.


herding dog

A dog bred for working cattle, sheep, or other livestock. For example, the various shepherd breeds.


munia

It is said, however, occasionally though rarely to eat insects, and Layard has related how an individual, kept in captivity, killed and swallowed small birds (Munias), its fellow-captives.

1895, Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford, Birds, volume 3, page 88:

Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.

2000, Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration, page 76:

Okanoya (2002) argues that the Bengalese finch has a much more 'complex' song than the munia. As mentioned earlier, his measure of complexity is the song linearity. He finds that the average song linearity of the munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.

2010, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Simon Kirby, “20: A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 398:

Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).


wurbagool

You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow's hair is, they say, the best cure.

1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range (page 194)

An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.


dowitcher

From an Iroquoian language; compare Oneida tawístawe (“snipe”).

Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.


fathead minnow

Pimephales promelas
Pimephales promelas#Translingual

A small freshwater fish of the minnow family, Pimephales promelas, native to North America.


porgy

From Portuguese or Spanish pargo, from Latin phagrum, accusative of phager, from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros, “sea bream”).
The similarity of porgy to paugie, especially in non-rhotic accents, may have reinforced both terms.

der

Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the seabream.

Cooper’s was also a fishmonger, with rows of porgies, snapper, and flounder on ice that slowly melted and dribbled pink water into white buckets.

2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, pages 244-245:

In particular, the scup (paugie, Stenotomus chrysops).


white bear

From Middle English white bere. By surface analysis, white + bear.

Ursus maritimus
Ursus maritimus#Translingual

A white, semi-aquatic marine species of bear, Ursus maritimus, that is native and best adapted to the Arctic mix of land, ice and sea.


chatterer

Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?

1832, John Timbs, Knowledge for the People:

The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.

1846, Henry Leonard Meyer, Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs:

Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.


raghorn

From rag + horn, describing the animals as non-prime trophy specimens, i.e. "rags". Another explanation is that it is descriptive of how the new antlers have a velvety covering that sloughs off each year and can hang like rags.

(US, informal) Any male elk (bull) with antlers between one and six points, non-inclusive, on either side. Also called an "intermediate bull" (bulls with two, three, four or five points on either side).


scissorbill

(now rare) Synonym of skimmer: birds of the genus Rynchops.


stegosaur

Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder Stegosauria, having two rows of bony plates along the back.


pari-mutuel

en-noun

pari-mutuel (plural pari-mutuels or paris-mutuels)

pari-mutuels (plural)
paris-mutuels (plural)

There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton & Company, p. 208

(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.


longe

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.


firefox

Calque of Finnish tulikettu or Finnish tulirepo.

A mythical creature in Finnish folklore, a fox with fiery or radiant fur, the reflection of which produces the northern lights.


blue fox

Vernacular name of the subspecies Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis.


pack horse

1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.


sawfish

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238,
The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.

Because of their sharklike appearance, people often refer to the sawfishes as sharks. However, they are actually related to the skates and rays because the gills are ventral, the eyes are on top of the head, and the pectoral fins are attached to the head.

2006, Glenn R. Parsons, Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide, page 123:

Smalltooth sawfish native to rivers in south-west Florida appear to have given birth without sex – essentially cloning themselves.
The sawfish (Pristis pectinata) – a type of ray that grows up to 7 metres long – is a critically endangered species.[…]The sawfish is the first vertebrate shown to use parthenogenesis in the wild.

2015 June 6, “Sawfish babies don’t need a dad”, in New Scientist, number 3024, archived from the original on 2015-09-05, page 17:

Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.


arctic fox

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

Vulpes lagopus
Vulpes lagopus#Translingual

Vulpes lagopus, a fox of the family Canidae, living in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia.


striped beakfish

striped beakfish (plural striped beakfishes or striped beakfish)

striped beakfishes (plural)
striped beakfish (plural)

A tropical fish of species Oplegnathus fasciatus, found primarily in waters around Japan, with young distinguished by alternating stripes or bars of light and dark grey, whence the names; Adults, which grow up to 15 inches, tend to be charcoal grey.


water shrew

Bornean water shrew (Chimarrogale phaeura

Chinese water shrew (Chimarrogale styani

Any of several species of semiaquatic red-toothed shrews:


spearfish

spearfish (plural spearfishes or spearfish)

Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.


spearfish

en-verb

spearfish (third-person singular simple present spearfishes, present participle spearfishing, simple past and past participle spearfished)

spearfishes (present singular third-person)
spearfishing (participle present)
spearfished (participle past)
spearfished (past)

Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.

1979 February 7, “Outdoors: Northeast Spearfishing”, in The New York Times:

A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi.

2018 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea”, in The New York Times:

He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.

2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times:

To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.


brown hare

Lepus europaeus
Lepus europaeus#Translingual


arctic hare

Lepus arcticus
Lepus arcticus#Translingual

A North-American hare of species Lepus arcticus, that is white, usually year round, found in the Arctic.


snuffer

The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).


red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, the American red squirrel, found in parts of North America.


Siberian flying squirrel

en-noun

Siberian flying squirrel (plural Siberian flying squirrels)

A species of flying squirrel (Pteromys volans), common in Siberia and northeastern Europe.


American beaver

American beaver (plural American beavers)

Castor canadensis
Castor canadensis#Translingual

The beaver Castor canadensis, native of North America.


wood lemming

wood + lemming; from the animal's native habitat in forests

Any of species Myopus schisticolor of lemmings.


zebrafish

zebrafish (plural zebrafishes or zebrafish)

Use of the GAL4-UAS technique for targeted gene expression in the zebrafish.

2002, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Pattern Formation in Zebrafish:

A small striped fish of species Danio rerio, originally from India but now common as an aquarium fish and as a subject of genetic experiments.