Associations to the word «Lapwing»

Wiktionary

LAPWING, noun. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae.
LAPWING, noun. A silly man.

Dictionary definition

LAPWING, noun. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne