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–noun
a dabchick.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME dydoppar; shortened form of dive-dapper; see dap]
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n.   A small grebe, such as the dabchick.


[Middle English didopper, alteration of divedap, from Old English dūfedoppa, pelican : dūfan, to dive; see dive1 + -doppa, a kind of bird.]

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Dab"chick`\, n. [For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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