diock

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.ɑk/

Noun

diock (plural diocks)

1. Alternative form of dioch
   • 1899, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 443:

     The birds live chiefly on the seeds of plants and grasses, on rice kernels, the fruit of the ficus Indica, and […] It is a real little spitfire, and while a pair of these Diocks are busy building the nest, they will quarel and […]

   • 1917, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Birds, page 4:

     Among the cleverest of the artists is the diock, of the weaver family. His home is in Africa, and he is an expert in the weaving of colour into the patterns of his nest. The finished house is a thing of great charm : soft and tinted […]

   • 1962, The Victoria Naturalist:

     […] SIX MILLION Sudan diocks (small African birds) were exterminated.

Further reading

• 2020 August 3, Thomas Rymer Jones, Cassell's Book of Birds: Volume 1, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 246:

  The CRIMSON-BEAKED WEAVER BIRD, or DIOCK (Quelea sanguinirostris), is about four inches and ten lines long, and seven inches and ten lines broad; the wing two inches, the tail rather more […]