Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian partridge (Alectoris chukar) with grayish-brown plumage and red legs and bill, introduced into western North America as a game bird.
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- noun A species of
partridge native to central Asia. (Alectoris chukar )
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Battle Mountain bird hunters tend to settle for something called a chukar, a bird with the peculiar habit of running up hills and flying down.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Battle Mountain bird hunters tend to settle for something called a chukar, a bird with the peculiar habit of running up hills and flying down.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Battle Mountain bird hunters tend to settle for something called a chukar, a bird with the peculiar habit of running up hills and flying down.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Battle Mountain bird hunters tend to settle for something called a chukar, a bird with the peculiar habit of running up hills and flying down.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Still, the chukar is the national bird of Pakistan, and just last year was featured on a postage stamp.
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Still, the chukar is the national bird of Pakistan, and just last year was featured on a postage stamp.
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Still, the chukar is the national bird of Pakistan, and just last year was featured on a postage stamp.
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In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term.
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Hmm … one can think of neutral introductions, such as chukar in the western US.
RealClimate 2009
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Hmm … one can think of neutral introductions, such as chukar in the western US.
RealClimate 2009
hernesheir commented on the word chukar
A.k.a. chukar partridge. Extremely difficult to track or hunt because they prefer the folds of very steep, grassy mountain ridges. One laboriously follows them up the mountain, then at the moment of truth they flush, sail into the next fold, and sail all the way down to the bottom, sometimes hundreds and hundreds of feet below. Best hunting technique (I don't hunt) is to have several hunters run the birds up the mountain to ensconced hunters waiting at the top.
September 19, 2009