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dobchick

dobchick is the archaic form of dabchick.

Meaning of dabchick

Noun

dabchick (plural dabchicks)

  1. A small grebe, little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis).
    • Once there was a moment where the sun beat through the fog, and they discovered they were surrounded on all sides by dabchicks whinnying and diving.2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 396

Forms of dobchick

pluraldobchicks

Questions about dobchick

What is dobchick the archaic form of?
Dobchick is the archaic form of dabchick.

Words near dobchick in the dictionary

  1. Dobbs
  2. Dobbs Ferry
  3. Dobbses
  4. dobby
  5. Dobbyn
  6. dobchick
  7. dobchicks
  8. Dobcross
  9. dobe
  10. Dobek
  11. Dobeks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dobchick (page history and authors); dabchick (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.

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