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chough en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /t͡ʃʌf/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (UK) audio
• /t͡ʃʊf/ (Northern-England)
• (Australia) audio
• /t͡ʃɐf/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

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”).

Meanings

1. 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.
   • For parot is no churlish Chowgh / nor no f[l]ekyd pye c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parrot, lines 205–210:
   • And had not the old-man come in vvith a VVhoo-bub againſt his Daughter, and the Kings Sonne, and ſcar'd my Chovvghes from the Chaffe, I had not left a Purſe aliue in the vvhole Army. c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 296, column 2:
2. The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

Forms

Deriveds

red-billed chough · white-winged chough · yellow-billed chough · alpine chough

Synonyms

hermit-crow

Translations (34)

pt gralha (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · nl alpenkraai (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · pl wrończyk (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · gl choia (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · fi alppivaris (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · cs kavče (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · fa زاغ (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · sv alpkråka (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ast chova (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ckb قاژوومەڕە (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ru клу́шица (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · cy brân goesgoch (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · cy brân Gernyw (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · kw chogha (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · nl alpenkauw (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · it gracchio (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · pl skałowron (white-winged chough) · fi mutavaris (white-winged chough) · ga cág cosdearg (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · gd cathag nan casan dearg (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · hu csóka (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · bg червенокрака гарга (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · de Bergkrähe (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ast cuerva (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · eo pirokorako (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · gd cathag dhearg-chasach (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · es chova (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · cmn 山鴉 /山鸦 (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ast choya (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · ast graya (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · kw palores (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · sv alpkaja (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · fr crave (bird of Pyrrhocorax) · sv alpkråkor (bird of Pyrrhocorax)