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Killdeer vs Snipe - What's the difference?

killdeer | snipe |

As nouns the difference between killdeer and snipe

is that killdeer is a North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest while snipe is any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

As a verb snipe is

to hunt snipe.

killdeer

English

Alternative forms

* killdee * kill-deer

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus ) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 50:
    • A kill-deer , flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.

    snipe

    English

    (wikipedia snipe)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) "type of bird", from (etyl) The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe'' was dubbed a "sniper". The term ''sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".'>citation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera ''Gallinago'', ''Lymnocryptes'' and ''Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
  • A fool; a blockhead.
  • *
  • A shot fired from a concealed place.
  • (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
    • Derived terms
    * snipebill * snipefish * snipe hunt * snipelike

    See also

    * snipe hunt

    Verb

  • (lb) To hunt snipe.
  • *
  • (lb) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
  • (lb) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
  • (lb) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.
    • Derived terms
    * sniper

    Etymology 2

    Probably from or a cognate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cigarette butt.
  • An animated promotional logo during a television show.
  • A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.
  • A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.

    • Etymology 3

    Either from (m) or a figurative development from Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (lb) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
  • * 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
    • Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

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    English nouns with irregular plurals