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Kestrel vs Keelie - What's the difference?

kestrel | keelie |

As nouns the difference between kestrel and keelie

is that kestrel is any of various small falcons of the genus falco that hover while hunting while keelie is (scotland|northern england) a sparrowhawk or kestrel.

kestrel

English

(wikipedia kestrel) (Falco)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
  • * 1878 , Hardy,
    • When she was musing she was a kestrel , which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.
  • * 1917 , John Masefield,
    • Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover,
    Eyeing the grass.
    The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover
    As their shadows pass.
  • The common kestrel, Falco tinnunculus

    • Synonyms

    * (common kestrel) windhover, staniel

    Derived terms

    * American kestrel, Falco sparverius * banded kestrel, Falco zoniventris * common kestrel, Falco tinnunculus * Dickinson's kestrel, Falco dickinsoni * fox kestrel, Falco alopex * greater kestrel, Falco rupicoloides * grey kestrel, Falco ardosiaceus * lesser kestrel, Falco naumanni * Malagasy kestrel, Falco newtoni * Mauritius kestrel, Falco punctatus * Nankeen kestrel, Falco cenchroides * Seychelles kestrel, Falco araeus * spotted kestrel, Falco moluccensis

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    keelie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A sparrowhawk or kestrel.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A common or violent urban youth.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 64:
  • *:That was what she said if it was Glasgow people, Oh they are just keelies .