PARTRIDGE
ADJECTIVES
► PERDRICIDE that kills partridges, esp. for sport → 1826 humorous usage, obs.
NOUNS
► AITEN a partridge → 1898 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► DRUMMER a cock partridge → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► ENGLISH MAN the partridge, Perdix cinerea → 1893 Eng. dial.
► YELPER a young partridge → 1802
► CHURRING the noise made by a partridge in rising → 1880 (Bk.)
► COVEY a brood of partridges → 1440
► PERDIX a partridge → 1609
► PETER a partridge → 1860 poachers’ sl.
► FAULTER an unpaired pheasant or partridge → 1900 Eng. dial., obs. (Bk.)
► JUG the sleeping places of partridges, where they ‘jug’ or nestle together → 1834
NOUNS – PERSON
► WALKER one who ‘walks up’ partridges; a partridge hunter → 1913
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