Dictionary

plover en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈploʊvɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈplʌvɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈplʌvə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Northwest England
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Meanings

1. Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
2. (Australia) A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).

Forms

Deriveds

sand plover · chestnut-banded plover · Caspian plover · golden plover · grey plover · pied plover · black-breasted plover · semipalmated plover · beach plover · gray plover · ringed plover · ring plover · white-tailed plover · St Helena plover · collared plover · Wilson's plover · bull-head plover · calico plover · ploverness · hill plover · little ringed plover · green plover · snowy plover · spur-winged plover · Magellanic plover · black-winged plover · shore plover · Egyptian plover · stone plover · wry-billed plover · crab plover · double-banded plover · Eurasian golden plover · Swiss plover · upland plover · rock plover · mountain plover · black-bellied plover · spurwing plover · goggle-eyed plover · piping plover · white-crowned plover · Norfolk plover · blacksmith plover · ploverlike · masked plover · sea plover · Kentish plover · plovery · plovercrest · grass plover · lark-plover · Bartramina plover · whistling plover · crab-plover · sociable plover · quail-plover · yellow plover · American golden plover · bastard plover

Translations (55)

ast pollu (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · fr pluvier (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · nrf êprivyi (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · vi choi choi (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · gl píldora (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · fi kurmitsa (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · de Regenpfeifer (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · nb lo (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · cmn 鴴 /鸻 (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · es chorlo (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ro fluierar (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · es chorlito (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · eo pluvio (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · pl siewka (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ja 千鳥 (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ca corriol (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · fo lógv (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ro ploier (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · gd feadag (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · wyi perret-perret (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · grc χαραδριός (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · sl deževnik (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · cs kulík (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · sw kiluwiluwi (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · cmn 千鳥 /千鸟 (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · cy rhostog (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · es chorlitejo (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ru ржа́нка (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · tr yağmurcun (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · apw tábąą dijágé (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · is lóa (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · non lóa (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ast mazaricu (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · bg дъждосвирец (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ko 물떼새 (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · enm plover (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · nn lo (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · pt borrelho (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · pt tarambola (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · te ఉల్లంకి (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · he חוֹפָמִי (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · it caradrio (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · hu lile (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · non ló (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · vo garadriut (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ga feadóg (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · id cerek (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ru зуёк (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · nl plevier (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · cy cwtiad (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · nmn ǁn̥a̰ẽ (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · gd trìlleachan (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · gl píllara (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · lb Wakeleefer (wading bird of the family Charadriidae) · ryu 浜千鳥 (wading bird of the family Charadriidae)

plover en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈploʊvɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈplʌvɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈplʌvə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• audio Northwest England
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Meanings

1. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
   • Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow. 1997, Barry MacSweeney, The Book of Demons, page 107:
   • I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs. 2000, Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly, page 144:
   • Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt; 2002, Calvin Bedient, The Violence of the Morning: Poems, page 42:
2. To hunt for plover.
   • There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering. 1865, Henry Onderonk, Queens County in Olden Times, page 87:
   • Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred. 1962, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, page 244:
   • Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow; 1769, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, Alias Baxter, page 5:
3. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
   • Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing. 1971, John Ciardi, Lives of X., page 50:
   • Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers. 2021, Clive Chatters, Heathland:
   • If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them. 2021, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote, The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, page 282:

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