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downlooker

noun

Etymology

From down + looker. The snipe flies sometimes perch on tree trunks in a head-down position.

  1. inherited from *lōkōn✻
  2. inherited from lōcian
  3. inherited from loken
  4. suffixed as looker — “look + er”
  5. compounded as downlooker — “down + looker”

Definitions

  1. Any of various snipe flies of the genus Rhagio.

  2. A kind of artificial fly used in fly fishing.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA