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Noun
patridge (plural patridges)
- (now dialectal) Alternative form of partridge
1592, “The Hiſtorie of Doraſtus and Fawnia”, in Robert Greene, Pandoſto the Triumph of Time , London: I. B, →OCLC, page E:[…] but as one hauing a great deale moꝛe ſkill to retriue the patridge with his ſpaniels, then to hunt after ſuch a ſtraūge pꝛay, he ſought, but was little the better […]
1789, “United States”, in Jedidiah Morſe, The American Geography, or A View of the Preſent Situation of the United States of America , Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, page 60:What is called the Quail in New-England, is denominated Patridge in the ſouthern ſtates, where the true Patridge is not to be found.
2005, “Treed”, in Sam Lucy, Holding Ground: Game Birds, Gun Dogs, Friends, and the Land in Between, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 54:For some time now, they'd heard how easy it was to shoot northern “pa'tridge.” (Piles of birds ... dumb as a stone ... shoot 'em from the truck window with a .22.)
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