Meaning

noun flesh of either quail or grouse

noun heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

noun small Old World gallinaceous game birds

originFrom 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”).

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