English
Etymology
dab (“dive, dip, dabble”) + chick
Noun
dabchick (plural dabchicks)
- a small grebe, the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.
2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 396:Once there was a moment where the sun beat through the fog, and they discovered they were surrounded on all sides by dabchicks whinnying and diving.
Derived terms
Translations
type of bird
- Bulgarian: малък гмурец (malǎk gmurec)
- Catalan: cabusset (ca) m
- Finnish: pikku-uikku (fi)
- French: please add this translation if you can
- German: Zwergtaucher (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: κίγκλος m (kínklos)
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- Italian: tuffetto (it) m
- Maori: taihoropī, weweia, taratimoho, tokitoki, tokitokipia, tokitokipio, totokipia, totokipio, tongitongipia, totoipio, whirowhiro
- Russian: ма́лая пога́нка f (málaja pogánka)
- Spanish: zampullín chico m
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