dabchick
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dabchick
1565–75; earlier dapchick ( see dap, chick); compare doppened moorhen (literally, dipping duck)
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As he spoke he bobbed and dipped like a dabchick or little grebe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In the hot summer weather he would bathe twenty times a day, and was as much at home in the water as any dabchick.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
She was a pretty girl herself, in the florid, barmaid style, but as different a creature to Lilian Strange as a plump dabchick to an Arctic tern.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
If the kingfisher can find a living and abundant fish in our rivers and brooks, why does the dabchick migrate?
From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
Spī′der-catch′er, the wall-creeper; Spī′der-crab, a spider-like crab, or sea-spider with long thin legs; Spī′der-dīv′er, the little grebe, or dabchick; Spī′derdom, spiders collectively.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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