A rare dialectal English name for the common swift (Apus apus), likely derived from 'devil' due to the bird's screaming call and near-constant aerial life.
A rare dialectal English name for the common swift (Apus apus), likely derived from 'devil' due to the bird's screaming call and near-constant aerial life. Regional variants include 'devil bird' and 'deviling.' Its swift-as-the-devil associations gave it a faintly ominous folkloric character in rural English communities.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A pair of develins shrieked overhead as the summer evening darkened.
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(UK, obsolete) The common swift.
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