patridge

See also: Patridge

English

Alternative forms

• pa'tridge

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpatɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpætɹɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

patridge (plural patridges)

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of partridge
   • 1592, “The Hiſtorie of Doraſtus and Fawnia”, in Robert Greene, Pandoſto the Triumph of Time […] ‎^[1], London: [R. Field for] I. B[roome], →OCLC, page E:

     […] but as one hauing a great deale moꝛe ſkill to retriue the patridge with his ſpaniels, then to hunt after ſuch a ſtraūge pꝛay, he ſought, but was little the better […]

   • 1789, “United States”, in Jedidiah Morſe, The American Geography, or A View of the Preſent Situation of the United States of America […] ‎^[2], Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, page 60:

     What is called the Quail in New-England, is denominated Patridge in the ſouthern ſtates, where the true Patridge is not to be found.

   • 2005, “Treed”, in Sam Lucy, Holding Ground: Game Birds, Gun Dogs, Friends, and the Land in Between‎^[3], Down East Books, →ISBN, page 54:

     For some time now, they'd heard how easy it was to shoot northern “pa'tridge.” (Piles of birds ... dumb as a stone ... shoot 'em from the truck window with a .22.)

See also

• catridge