Talk:buzzard

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Possible missing senses[edit]

In archaic English dialect, it seems that night moths and cockchafers were called "buzzards" (mentioned by Nares); there may also have been derived forms buzzard-clock, buzzard-bat, buzzard-battle, buzzard-beetle. Equinox 01:19, 27 January 2019 (UTC)Reply