An obsolete Irish English name for the meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis, a small brown bird common on Irish moorland and grassland.
An obsolete Irish English name for the meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis, a small brown bird common on Irish moorland and grassland. The name is derived from Irish Gaelic and was used in older Irish natural history writing. Now entirely replaced by meadow pipit in standard usage.
The old gamekeepers called the little birds wekeen and could imitate their call perfectly.
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A Lancashire dialect name for the lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), a common British wading bird known for its distinctive call. The name is likely imitative of the bird's cry. Dialect bird names like this were once common across English regional speech and are now mainly of interest to dialectologists and bird enthusiasts.
An Irish term for a small fish — specifically the minnow, but used more broadly for any tiny, insignificant fish. Extended figuratively to describe an insignificant or unimportant person: someone too small to matter. The diminutive '-een' suffix is characteristically Irish, adding a sense of smallness.
(NZ) , a flightless bird of New Zealand in the family Rallidae with brown plumage.
A wading bird, the dunlin.
(obsolete, Ireland) A bird, the meadow pipit.
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