partridge

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun flesh of either quail or grouse
  2. noun heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
  3. noun small Old World gallinaceous game birds

Etymology

From Middle English partrich, partriche, pertriche, perdriz, from Old French perdriz, partriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”).

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