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shuttlecock

English

Alternative forms

  • shittlecock

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /???tl?k?k/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???tl?k?k/

Etymology

From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).

Noun

shuttlecock (countable and uncountable, plural shuttlecocks) (badminton)

  1. (countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]
    Synonym: birdie
  2. (uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.
    • 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)
      Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock []

Translations

Related terms

  • battledore and shuttlecock

Verb

shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)

  1. To move rapidly back and forth
  2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy
    • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
      if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!

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Further reading

  • shuttlecock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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