plover
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Inflected forms:
form: plovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plover
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plovers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plovering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plovered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plovered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
pos: noun
gloss: A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
pos: verb
examples: Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.
I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs.
Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;
gloss: To hunt for plover.
pos: verb
examples: Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;
There is a handsome prospect from the plains, which render very good shooting in the season of plovering.
Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.
gloss: To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
pos: verb
examples: Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.
Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.
If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.
Derived words: American golden plover
Bartramina plover
bastard plover
beach plover
black-bellied plover
black-breasted plover
blacksmith plover
black-winged plover
bull-head plover
calico plover
Caspian plover
chestnut-banded plover
collared plover
crab plover
crab-plover
double-banded plover
Egyptian plover
Eurasian golden plover
goggle-eyed plover
golden plover
grass plover
gray plover
grey plover
green plover
hill plover
Kentish plover
lark-plover
little ringed plover
Magellanic plover
masked plover
Norfolk plover
piping plover
plovercrest
ploverlike
ploverness
plovery
quail-plover
ringed plover
ring plover
rock plover
sand plover
sea plover
semipalmated plover
shore plover
snowy plover
sociable plover
spurwing plover
spur-winged plover
St Helena plover
stone plover
Swiss plover
upland plover
whistling plover
white-crowned plover
white-tailed plover
Wilson's plover
wry-billed plover
yellow plover
Translations:
lang: Western Apache
word: tábąą dijágé
lang: Asturian
word: pollu
lang: Asturian
word: mazaricu
lang: Bulgarian
word: дъждосвирец
roman: dǎždosvirec
lang: Catalan
word: corriol
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 千鳥 /千鸟
roman: qiānniǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鴴 /鸻
roman: héng
lang: Czech
word: kulík
lang: Dutch
word: plevier
lang: Esperanto
word: pluvio
lang: Faroese
word: lógv
lang: Finnish
word: kurmitsa
lang: French
word: pluvier
lang: Galician
word: píldora
lang: Galician
word: píllara
lang: German
word: Regenpfeifer
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χαραδριός
roman: kharadriós
lang: Hebrew
word: חוֹפָמִי
roman: ḥofamí
lang: Icelandic
word: lóa
lang: Indonesian
word: cerek
lang: Irish
word: feadóg
lang: Italian
word: caradrio
lang: Japanese
word: 千鳥
roman: chidori
lang: Korean
word: 물떼새
roman: multtesae
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Wakeleefer
lang: Middle English
word: plover
lang: Norman
word: êprivyi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lo
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lo
lang: Okinawan
word: 浜千鳥
roman: hamachiduri
lang: Old Norse
word: ló
lang: Old Norse
word: lóa
lang: Polish
word: siewka
lang: Portuguese
word: tarambola
lang: Portuguese
word: borrelho
lang: Romanian
word: ploier
lang: Romanian
word: fluierar
lang: Russian
word: зуёк
roman: zujók
lang: Russian
word: ржа́нка
roman: ržánka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feadag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: trìlleachan
lang: Slovene
word: deževnik
lang: Spanish
word: chorlo
lang: Spanish
word: chorlito
lang: Spanish
word: chorlitejo
lang: Swahili
word: kiluwiluwi
lang: Telugu
word: ఉల్లంకి
roman: ullaṅki
lang: Turkish
word: yağmurcun
lang: Vietnamese
word: choi choi
lang: Volapük
word: garadriut
lang: Welsh
word: rhostog
lang: Welsh
word: cwtiad
lang: Woiwurrung
word: perret-perret
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ǁn̥a̰ẽ