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From 中期英語 choughe, choȝe, coo, cheo, from 古期英語 ċēo (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ċeahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”). Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).

chough (plural choughs)

Any member of either of two species of the genus Pyrrhocorax of birds in the crow family (Corvidae), that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parrot‎, lines 205–210:
  
  For parot is no churlish Chowgh / nor no f[l]ekyd pye
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 296, column 2:
  
  And had not the old-man come in vvith a VVhoo-bub againſt his Daughter, and the Kings Sonne, and ſ car 'd my Chovvghes from the Chaffe, I had not left a Purſe aliue in the vvhole Army.
A white-winged chough Corcorax melanorhamphos in the Australian mud-nest builders family (Corcoracidae), that inhabits dry woodlands.

Synonym: hermit-crow

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