Word.ws English Dictionary

dikkops

dikkops is the plural of dikkop.

Meaning of dikkop

Noun

dikkop (plural dikkops)

  1. (South Africa) A bird of the family Burhinidae.
    • Dikkops, family burhinidae. Plover like birds with large heads and eyes, long legs without a hind claw and tawny colouring. 1983 Newmans Birds of Southern Africa. Kennith Newman. MacMillan →ISBN.
  2. (South Africa) A viral infection of horses causing swelling of parts of the head.
    • Dik-kop in a Carriage Horse.— The day before I was called in the horse had been driven about twelve miles.1901 April 12, “Veterinary Departmental Report for February, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 85

Questions about dikkops

What is dikkops the plural of?
Dikkops is the plural of dikkop.

Words near dikkops in the dictionary

  1. dikirion
  2. dikk
  3. dikka
  4. dikkas
  5. dikkop
  6. dikkops
  7. Dikranian
  8. Dikranians
  9. diksha
  10. dikshas
  11. Dikshit

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dikkops (page history and authors); dikkop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dikkops.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dikkops. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.