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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)
- (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
- (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 […]
- 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)
Translations
Related terms
- battledore and shuttlecock
Verb
shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)
- To move rapidly back and forth
- 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!
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
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Further reading
- shuttlecock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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