Corvid
Glossary term
/ˈkɔɹvɪd/
Also appears as: corvid
Crow-family bird. Ian Corby is the local exemplar and civic proof that taxonomy need not impede public office.
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Who uses the word
- Ian Corby has instance (2 passages)
From the books (2 passages)
…Withal, being a sanguine sort of a corvid, and not given to dwelling overlong on the culinary solecisms which the spinners and snippers of thread chose to inflict upon him, he straightways leapt down into the chimney pot and just as expeditiously vanished.
…to be repeated, in view of that rogue’s becoming aware of the sinecure which that thrusting and ambitious corvid had obtained in the hierarchy of the City Council.