Definitions
valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
Word origin
From Middle English partrich, partriche, pertriche, perdriz, from Old French perdriz, partriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”).
Used in a sentence
“On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.”
“Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]”
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01“Small field bird”9 letters
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