dough bird
[ doh-burd ]
noun
the Eskimo curlew.
Origin of dough bird
1An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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How to use dough bird in a sentence
Apparently, that was the beginning of the end of the "dough bird," which was another name for this curlew.
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