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buzzard

English

Etymology

From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin bute?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?z??d/

Noun

buzzard (plural buzzards)

  1. Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
  2. (Canada, US) Any scavenging bird such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
  3. (colloquial, derogatory, slang, often preceded by "old", the "old buzzard") In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
  4. (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
    • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,[1]
      An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
    • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Animated Nature, Volume 6, Index,[2]
      It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.
  5. (golf) Synonym of double bogey

Synonyms

  • buteo
  • broadwing
  • turkey vulture
  • vulture

Derived terms


Translations

Further reading

  • buzzard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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falcon

English

Alternative forms

  • faulcon (obsolete), faucon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falc? (falcon), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falk? (falcon, hawk), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (falcon), from Proto-Indo-European *pol?- (pale), from *pel- (fallow).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôl?k?n, fô?k?n, IPA(key): /?f??(l)k?n/, /?f?lk?n/
  • (US) enPR: f?l?k?n, IPA(key): /?fælk?n/ IPA(key): /?f??lk?n/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /?fælk?n/, IPA(key): /?fo?lk?n/
  • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?f?lk?n/, IPA(key): /?fo?lk?n/
  • Rhymes: -??(l)k?n

Originally, the l was silent and purely etymological. Its pronunciation began through spelling pronunciation and is followed by most speakers, though some speakers still use l-less pronunciations.

Noun

falcon (plural falcons)

  1. Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
  2. (falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
  3. (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.

Derived terms

  • black falcon
  • brown falcon
  • gray falcon, grey falcon

Related terms

  • Capra falconeri
  • falconer
  • falconet
  • falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle
  • falconine
  • falconry
  • gerfalcon, gyrfalcon
  • peregrine falcon

Translations

Verb

falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)

  1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.

Anagrams

  • flacon

Ladin

Noun

falcon m

  1. kestrel

Middle English

Noun

falcon

  1. Alternative form of faucoun

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • faucon

Etymology

From Old Occitan falcon, from Late Latin falco, falconem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fal?ku/

Noun

falcon m (plural falcons)

  1. falcon
    Synonym: moisset

Derived terms

  • falconièr

Old French

Noun

falcon m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)

  1. Alternative form of faucon (falcon)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin falco, falconem.

Noun

falcon m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)

  1. falcon (bird)

Descendants

  • Catalan: falcó
  • Occitan: falcon

References

  • von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “falco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 30, page 381

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