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moorhen: synonyms: marsh hen, skitty coot, waterhen, swamp chicken, Gallinula chloropus ???

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An Old World bird that inhabits vegetated wetlands. Similar to a duck, however without webbed feet.

^{photo: By Mehmet Karatay - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4137803}
^{sound file: by Joost van Bruggen, XC432931. Accessible at https://www.xeno-canto.org/432931}
^{license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/}

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Blackadder: (to Don) Look, leave me alone, will you, I'm trying to talk to someone. (to Percy) ...while you're wittering away like a pox-ridden moorhen

BBC. Blackadder, Season 1: The Queen of Spain's Beard

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who have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus Christ who went barefoot!

Victor Hugo. Les Miserables.

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