chough
English
Wikispecies
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the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Etymology
From Middle English choughe, choȝe, coo, cheo, from Old English ċēo (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ċeahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).
Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌf/
- (UK)
(file) - Rhymes: -ʌf
- Homophone: chuff
Noun
chough (plural choughs)
- Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- For parot is no churlish Chowgh, nor no flekyd pye
Parrot is no pendugum, that men call a carlyng
Parrot is no woodecocke, nor no butterfly
Parrot is no stameryng stare, yt men call a starlyng
But Parot is my owne dere harte, & my dere derlĩg
- For parot is no churlish Chowgh, nor no flekyd pye
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
Derived terms
- alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
- red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
- white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
- yellow-billed chough
Translations
bird of Pyrrhocorax
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white-winged chough
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