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kling-kling|ˈklɪŋklɪŋ|
Also cling-cling, clinkling, klinkling.
[Echoic.]
A Jamaican name for a grackle, Quiscalus niger.
1847Gosse & Hill Birds Jamaica 219 It is to the first of these notes that the bird before us owes his local names of Tinkling, Tintin, Clinkling. 1949Caribbean Q. I. iv. 42 What to Miss Bottome is a tropical bird, is to Vic Reid a pechary or a klinkling. 1955R. G. Taylor Introd. Birds Jamaica 11 Kling-kling, a bird of medium size with shining black plumage, pointed beak, a pale yellow eye and long boat-shaped tail. 1960J. Bond Birds W. Indies 217 Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger. Local names: Tinkling; Cling-cling; Ting-ting (Jamaica). 1965I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 75 Two large black birds..whirled in... She said, ‘We call them kling-klings but learned folk call them Jamaican grackles.’ |