beccaccian.
/bɛkˈkattʃa/ A woodcock.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Scolopax (woodcock)
woodcockc1050
wood-snitec1050
cock1736
beccaccia1855
wood-snipe1887
1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxv, in Men & Women II. 47 Fine as the beak of a young beccaccia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1855- to sing something on sides
- to sing the black sanctus
- to sing the blues
- to sing the one song
- to sing the same song
- to sing the same tune
- to sing the wrong side of one's mouth
- to sing wellaway
- to sing with a full throat
- to sink a person without a trace
- to sink a person without trace
- to sink a thing without a trace
- to sink a thing without trace
- to sink in
- to sink in the boot
- to sink into nothingness
- to sink one's teeth into
- to sink or swim
- to sink the shop
- to sink the wind
- to sink through the floor
- to sink to rights
- to sink tooth into
- to sink without a trace
- to sink without trace