Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grebe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The dabchick.
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- noun The
dabchick , orlittle grebe .
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Examples
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I went through the water like a hell-diver, and without quite knowing what I was doing I got hold of him and tried to garrote him.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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He allowed that it was a common "hell-diver with an abnormal head," while Lyons claimed that it was a kingfisher.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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And so it is that the duck called hell-diver has red eyes.”
The Vanishing Race Joseph Kossuth Dixon 1891
reesetee commented on the word hell-diver
Obsolete nickname for the Horned Grebe. Other nicknames include devil-diver, pink-eyed diver, and water witch. Apparently it was not a well-liked bird.
December 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word hell-diver
Lol, its nicknames read like a tracklist from a heavy metal album.
December 8, 2007
lampbane commented on the word hell-diver
What, no holy-diver?
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word hell-diver
It was too evil to be a holy-diver. ;-) Actually, I think it's a beautiful bird, but to each his/her own....
December 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word hell-diver
I need this word. You know, you drop a dollar on the pavement, and it rolls a way from you and over the kerb and there it goes right down to the bottom of Dante's bloody inferno. So you look around like a goose thinking how am I gonna get this coin back?
But no, you're not really a goose,
You shake your reptilian vestiges loose,
You're fired by transmogrificatory juice,
You become a ..... hell-diver!
muwhahahahahaha!
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word hell-diver
HAHAHA! Bilby, you're on a tear today!
December 8, 2007