shirlcockn.
/ˈʃəːlkɒk/ dialect.
The Missel Thrush, Turdus viscivorus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush)
song thrush1598
mistle-bird1626
mistle thrush1646
shreitch1668
shrite1668
mistletoe thrush1719
storm cock1769
wood-thrush1791
rain-fowl1817
thrice-cock1819
mistle1845
hollin cock1848
fen-thrush1854
storm thrush1854
shirlcock1859
fell-thrush1879
felt1879
jay1880
jay pie1880
Norman thrush1885
stone-thrush1885
1859 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland Shellcock,..the missel thrush.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Shircock, the missel-thrush.
1882 W. Dickinson Gloss. Dial. Cumberland 21 (Cumbld. Gloss.) I heard a shelcock sing about nine o'clock.
1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms Shirl cock, a thrush.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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