chough
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Etymology
From Middle English choughe, choȝe, coo, cheo, from Old English ċēo (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ċeahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).
Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).
Pronunciation
Noun
chough (plural choughs)
- Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
- c. 1521, John Shelton, Speke Parott, archived from the original on 2020-12-05, lines 205–210:
- For Parrot is no churlish chowgh, nor flekyd pye, (chough; peacock) / Parrot is no pendugum that men call a carlyng, (witch) / Parrot is no woodecocke, nor no butterfly, / Parrot is no stameryng stare, that men call a starlyng; (starling) / But Parrot is my owne dere harte and my dere derling. (dear) / Melpomene, that fayre mayde, she burneshed his beke: (polished) / I pray you, let Parrot have lyberte to speke.
- The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
- Synonym: hermit-crow
Derived terms
Translations
bird of Pyrrhocorax
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