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6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
originFrom Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0