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nuthacker

noun

Etymology

From nut + hacker.

  1. inherited from *keg-✻
  2. inherited from *hakkōną✻ — “to chop, hack”
  3. inherited from *hakkōn✻ — “to chop, hack”
  4. inherited from *haccian✻ — “to hack”
  5. inherited from hackere
  6. compounded as nuthacker — “nut + hacker”

Definitions

  1. The nuthatch.

    • The common names nuthatch and nuthacker refer to the way the bird takes a nut in its claws and hacks at it with its bill or wedges it in the bark of a tree and hacks it with hard strokes to break it open.

The neighborhood

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