Lapwing Definition

lăpwĭng
noun
Any of a genus (Vanellus) of black-and-white plovers; esp., an Old World crested species (V. vanellus) with broad, rounded wings, noted for spectacular aerial displays.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
lapwing
Plural:
lapwings

Origin of Lapwing

  • From Old English hlÄ“apewince, from hlÄ“apan (“to leap") + *winc- ("sway, totter") (because of its manner of flight). The modern form is influenced by popular etymology.

    From Wiktionary

  • By folk etymology from Middle English lapwink hoopoe, lapwing from Old English hlēapewince hlēapan to leap wincan to waver

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lapwing Sentence Examples

  • In Sweden Vipa, in Germany Kiebitz, in Holland Kiewiet, and in France Dixhuit, are names of the lapwing, given to it from its usual cry.

  • We are working to bring back the skylark, lapwing and corn cockle.

  • Frequenting parts of the open country so very divergent in character, and as remarkable for the peculiarity of its flight as for that of its cry, the lapwing is far more often observed in nearly all parts of the British Islands than any other of the group Limicolae.

  • The lapwing's conspicuous crest seems to have been the cause of a common blunder among English writers of the middle ages, who translated the Latin word Upupa, property hoopoe, by lapwing, as being the crested bird with which they were best acquainted.

  • In like manner other writers of the same or an earlier period latinized lapwing by Egrettides (plural), and rendered that again into English as egrets - the tuft of feathers misleading them also.

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