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n. Any of various small grebes of the genus Podiceps.

n. Popular name for the little grebe.

n. A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

n. A newly hatched or unfledged chick.

n. Hence A delectable morsel; a childish, tender, delicate person.

n. A small grebe; a water-bird of the family Podicipedidæ: especially applied in Europe to the Podiceps minor, the little grebe, and in the United States to the Podilymbus podiceps, the Carolina or pied-billed grebe.

n. small European grebe

"Old Joe and Bob grunted approbation, and Mordacks himself was beginning to believe that some dark whirlpool or coil of tangles had drowned the poor diver, when a very gentle noise, like a dabchick playing beneath a bridge, came from the darkest corner."

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dapchick    dobchick    dipchick    didapper    dobber   

New Zealand dabchick