gorcrow
Gorcrow is a British dialectal name for the carrion crow — the all-black crow common across Britain and Europe, known for feeding on carrion and other detritus.
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Gorcrow is a British dialectal name for the carrion crow — the all-black crow common across Britain and Europe, known for feeding on carrion and other detritus. The 'gor-' element likely relates to gore (blood, entrails), fitting the bird's scavenging habits. A dialect term found mainly in older rural vocabulary, particularly in the West Country and parts of the Midlands. Largely obsolete in everyday speech, replaced by the standard 'carrion crow' or simply 'crow.'
A pair of gorcrows picked at something in the field at the edge of the woods, undisturbed by the traffic below.
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(UK, dialect) The carrion crow.
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