throstlecock

throstlecock

English

Etymology

throstle + cock

Noun

throstlecock (plural throstlecocks)

1. The male throstle
   • 1962, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "When Winter first begins to bite"

     The wind so whirled a weathercock

     He could not hold his tail up;

     The frost so nipped a throstlecock,

     He could not snap a snail up.