dabchick

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From dab (“dive, dip, dabble”) + chick.

Otters, kingfishers, dabchicks, moorhens, all of them about all day long and always wanting you to do something—as if a fellow had no business of his own to attend to!” “What lies over there?” asked the Mole, waving a paw towards a background of woodland that darkly framed the water-meadows on one side of the river. — The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis

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