teukn.
/tjuːk/ local.
The name given in East Anglia, Essex, and Kent to a bird, the Redshank, Totanus calidris.
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redling1655
pool-snite1661
pool snipe1678
red-legged horseman1678
red-legged sandpiper1785
red-leg1798
sand cock1804
snipe1829
redshank gambet1840
teuk1859
yelper1892
1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 300 A man went with a sailor to shoot teukes.
1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London (ed. 2) 256 The redshank, pool-snipe, teuke or took.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 11/1 The Redshank. The clear ‘teuk~teuk’ will break upon the stillness that reigns around, showing your deadly presence is detected.]
1910 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 11/1 The ‘teuk’, as they call the redshank in [the Essex marshes].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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