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▪ I. ziczac|ˈzɪkzæk|
Also siksak, sagsag, sicsac, zi(c)kza(c)k.
[Ultimately a. Arab. zaqzāq, saqsaq (Dozy).]
An Egyptian species of plover, Pluvianus ægyptius (Charadrius melanocephalus), which by its cry warns the crocodile of approaching danger; perhaps identical with the trochilus (see trochilus1 1).
1844W. D. Cooley Larcher's Notes Herod. ii. lxviii. I. 285 The bird called sagsag, or siksak, by the Arabs, is a species of plover. 1849Curzon Vis. Monast. Levant xii. 150, I was on the point of firing at his [sc. a sleeping crocodile's] eye, when I observed that he was attended by a bird called a ziczac. 1882Phil Robinson Noah's Ark iii, Almost too lazy to keep his jaws open while the little ‘sicsac’ plover picked his teeth.
▪ II. ziczac
variant of zigzag. |