covey
A brood or family of partridges, which includes game birds such as grouse and ptarmigansA brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
Meaning
4 sensesA brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
вы́водокvývodok
(broadly)A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
ста́яstája
(broadly, figuratively)A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
гру́ппаgrúppa, ста́йкаstájka
(UK, dated, familiar, slang)A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
- a small flock of grouse or partridge
- a small collection of people
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 3
Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volleyThe noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volley of shot; kind of gun”) [and other forms], from Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”) (modern French couvée), a noun use of the feminine past participle of cover (“to brood (an egg)”) (modern French couver), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
From cove + -y (diminutive suffix). Cove is derived from Romani kodo (“this one; him”) or kova (“that person”).
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