Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dabchick or little grebe of Europe, Podicipes or Sylbeocyclus minor.
- noun One of sundry other small grebes, as the pied-billed dabchick, Podilymbus podicipes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
dabchick .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
small diving water bird frequentingrivers andfresh waters, specifically alittle grebe . - noun One who
disappears for a time andsuddenly reappears .
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Examples
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He is so afflicted at her death, that he throws himself into the sea, and is transformed into a didapper.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Persons who observe them, as they fly, call to mind how Æsacus, the son of Priam, was changed into a sea bird, called the didapper.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Ovid and Apollodorus agree that Æsacus was the son of Priam, and that he was changed into a didapper, or diver, but they differ in the other circumstances of his life.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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In the _Peri Bathous_ Pope included Welsted as a didapper and an eel.
Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast Anonymous 1717
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If we stood off th 'little didapper all night, you know we can all day. "
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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Them Yankees went out o 'sight quicker' n a didapper duck. "
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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"The old didapper," began Bildad, somewhat irreverently, "infested this here house about twenty year.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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“This one, too, which you see, as it cuts through the sea, and having its legs drawn up,” pointing at a didapper, with its wide throat, “was the son of a king.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Latin name of the diver, or didapper, ‘mergus,’ by saying that it was so called, ‘a mergendo,’ from its diving, which doubtless was the origin of the name, though not taking its rise in the fiction here related by the Poet.]
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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But it is worthless compared with the priceless items that were taken, like didapper and nautch. "
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