"It was like a water-meadow at home, such a place as I had often in boyhood searched for mosscheepers' and corncrakes' eggs."
What's a mosscheeper? And when did you last have corncrakes' eggs for breakfast?
PS If you enjoy reading books that are gloriously politically incorrect, I reckon John Buchan's Prester John is outrageous enough to cause a bishop to kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
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Just checked Camber's Dictionary. mosscheeper- the titlark. Titlark - the meadow pipit.
Regards, Mike.
Thanks, Mike. Meadow Pipit it is, then.
Not a lot of breakfast in a titlark egg, is there? Though the name must be good for a neologial?, and perhaps sexist, collective noun - or three.
"A ....... of titlarks." Hm, I see what you mean.
A "frolic of titlarks" perhaps? Anyone else got a suggestion?
OK, "a fondle of titlarks". Further than that, I am not prepared to go.
:-)
In the interests of political completeness, and as it was I who proposed three CNs and you who supplied two, I'll be the one to go further. - sticking with your choice of initial letter 'f' for the CN, at that.
A "frottage of titlarks" was really what you were aiming for when you stopped neologising - admit it.
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