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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English lapwynge, lapwynke, lappewincke, lapwynche, lhapwynche, from Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), from Old English hlēapan (“to leap”) + wincian (“to wink, make a sign”), due to its manner of flight. Cognate with West Frisian ljip (“lapwing”).
The modern form is influenced by folk etymology to resemble English wing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlæpwɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]lapwing (plural lapwings)
- Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
- 1986, Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149:
- Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
- 2010, Des Thompson, Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers, page 36:
- The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
- 2010, Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar, page 244:
- Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
- A silly man.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
Derived terms
[edit]- African wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
- banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
- black-headed lapwing (Vanellus tectus)
- black-winged lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus)
- blacksmith lapwing (Vanellus armatus)
- brown-chested lapwing (Vanellus superciliosus)
- cayenne lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
- crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
- gray-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
- gray lapwing (Pluvialis squatarola, syn. Squatarola cinerea)
- Javan lapwing (Vanellus macropterus)
- long-toed lapwing (Vanellus crassirostris)
- masked lapwing (Vanellus miles)
- northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
- pied lapwing (Vanellus cayanus)
- red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
- river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
- Senegal lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
- southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
- spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus)
- spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
- wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- white-crowned lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
- white-headed lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
- white-tailed lapwing (Vanellus leucurus)
- yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)
- See also
Lapwing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
[edit]bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae
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