Crossword-Solution: DABCHICK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dabchick | n. | A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “DABCHICK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| little grebe | 1 answer |
| type of small grebe | 1 answer |
| Small diving bird | 2 answers |
| didapper | 2 answers |
| WATER witch | 3 answers |
| grebe | 4 answers |
| ENGLISH bird | 6 answers |
| IRISH bird | 8 answers |
| SCOTTISH bird | 15 answers |
| Diving bird | 24 answers |
| Aquatic bird | 54 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DABCHICK (5)
Gwenwynwyn gazed long, of his senses in doubt, To see the grey friar a diver so stout; Then sadly and slowly his castle he sought, And left the friar diving, like dabchick distraught.
The water was still troubled and discoloured by his introductory adventure, and, though he ducked his head with the spirit of a dabchick, the book was missing.
LITTLE GREBE (_Podiceps minor_).—Dabchick, as it is commonly called, swims in the Itchen and in Fisher’s Pond (on Colden Common), dipping down suddenly without a trace of the least alarm.
The Dabchick is a very timid bird, and when alarmed instantly dives, after which it is useless to look after the bird.
They're right off our weather beam, now, sir." "The devil!" ejaculated Lieutenant Dabchick, in his flurry using a stronger expression than he would probably have done had `old Hankey Pankey' been on the quarter-deck, rushing into the chart-house on the bridge and snatching up a telescope, which he brought to bear on the horizon in the direction indicated by Adams in the foretop above, whose point of vantage, of course, gave him a wider range of view.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).