throstlecock

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

throstle +‎ cock

Noun[edit]

throstlecock (plural throstlecocks)

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