plover
/ˈplʌvɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
verb
To hunt for plover.
name
A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named for the bird.
name
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
name
A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
Example Sentences
- "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;"
- "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."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plover, plovarius, pluvia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈplʌvɚ/
- British English: /ˈplʌvə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
American golden plover
Bartramina plover
bastard plover
beach plover
black-bellied plover
black-breasted plover
blacksmith plover
black-winged plover