dotterel
Speech parts
1. dotterel - Noun
2. dotterel - Adjective
3. dotterel - Verb
Meaning
Decayed.
A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Eudromias morinellus
Charadrius morinellus
dotrel
nimrod
dodo
prat
nit
plover
bayard
flathead
berk
cluck
deadhead
chump
dip
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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.