chough
Americannoun
noun
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a large black passerine bird, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a long downward-curving red bill: family Corvidae (crows)
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a smaller related bird, Pyrrhocorax graculus, with a shorter yellow bill
Etymology
Origin of chough
1275–1325; Middle English choghe; akin to Old English cēo, Dutch kauw, Danish kaa
Vocabulary lists containing chough
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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Example Sentences
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She found it easier this time, and there was the chough, with her in her own world, perching on a branch that hung low over the pavement.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
The second is like the foolish chough, which loves to steal money only to hide it.
From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham
These in their turn will be followed by the chough, hobby, great black-backed gull, furze wren, crested tit, and others.
From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
According to them he alone is responsible for the disappearance of his distinguished relation, the chough.
From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate 255 As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; I myself could make A chough of as deep chat.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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