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puttock

puttock noun: any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier.

Noun

puttock (plural puttocks)

  1. (UK, regional) Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier
    • Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, dismayd, / Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd: / All shap't according their conditions […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Who finds the partridge In the puttock's nest, But will suspect 'twas he that did the deed? " But then Shakespeare knew the habits of partridges and puttocks as well as Milton knew his Bible or his Tacitus.1873, Appletons' Journal - Issues 224-249, page 724
  2. (broadly) A rapacious person who preys on the defenseless.
    • Besides that, as though this pillage and pollage were not rapacious enough, they take in and enclose commons, moors, heaths and other common pastures where out the poor commonalty were want to have all their provisions and feeding for their cattle and (which is more) corn for themselves to live...2014, Susan Doran, Norman Jones, The Elizabethan World, →ISBN, page 440
  3. The futtock.

puttock meaning in Urdu

puttock in Urdu

چیل

Forms of puttock

pluralputtocks

Origin of puttock

From Middle English puttock, puttok, potok, puttoc, of uncertain origin; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *putta (“hawk”) + -ock; or perhaps from Old English *pūthafoc (literally “pout-hawk”), equivalent to pout (“a kind of fish”) + hawk. Compare also pout (“a young bird”), poult.

Words formed from puttock

  • puttock plate
  • puttock ring

Questions about puttock

What does puttock mean?
Puttock means any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier.
What is puttock in Urdu?
Puttock in Urdu is چیل. See Puttock meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is puttock?
Puttock is a noun.
What is the plural of puttock?
The plural of puttock is puttocks.

Words near puttock in the dictionary

  1. putting wood in t'hole
  2. putting wood in t’hole
  3. putting words in someone's mouth
  4. puttings
  5. putto
  6. puttock
  7. puttocks
  8. puttoes
  9. puttogether
  10. puttony
  11. puttonyos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puttock (page history and authors); puttock (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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