thrice-cockn.
/ˈθrʌɪskɒk/ dialect.
= mistle thrush n.; cf. storm cock n. at storm n. Compounds 5.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush)
song thrush1598
mistle-bird1626
mistle thrush1646
shreitch1668
shrite1668
mistletoe thrush1719
storm cock1769
wood-thrush1791
rain-fowl1817
thrice-cock1819
mistle1845
hollin cock1848
fen-thrush1854
storm thrush1854
shirlcock1859
fell-thrush1879
felt1879
jay1880
jay pie1880
Norman thrush1885
stone-thrush1885
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 26 Jan. (1971) 160 The Thrice-Cock..is the largest kind of thrush.
1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Names Brit. Birds 236 Thrice Cock. A Midland and North of England name for the Mistle-thrush.
1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. xiv. 9 Mistle Thrush... Thricecock: Oldham. Cf. Fieldfare.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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