- the smallest European grebe (Podiceps ruficollis)
- pied-billed grebe
Origin of dabchick
dab + chick: from the manner of divingdabchick
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dabchick
noun
Any of various small grebes of the genera Poliocephalus and Tachybaptus.
Origin of dabchick
Alteration (probably influenced by dab 1) of earlier dobchick, dopchick probably obsolete English dop to dive, plunge ( from Middle English doppen ) (Middle English doppe diving bird ) ( from Old English -doppa ) ( as in dūfedoppa pelican ) chickTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural dabchicks)
- (UK) Popular name for the little grebe.
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Sentence Examples
- But there are also species, though not Passerine, which are absolutely identical with those of Britain, the barn owl, common quail, pigmy rail, and little grebe or dabchick, all of them common and apparently resident in the island.
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