Re: Old Dutch words

Krop would be the "crop" or dialect "craw" in English
--remember the expression "to stick in one's craw"
from cowboy movies to describe an unavenged slight?
In Spanish buche, whence buchón "glutton," and quite a
few slang expressions --I'm guessing it's a semantic
shift from French but I don't know what the French
word for "crop" is.
The gizzard is where the food gets ground up.
It's a poetic description of a pelican.


--- willemvermeer <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
>
> About the Dutch word "kropgans":
>
>
> > One for fattening? (Just a guess.)
>
>
> I have come across this word in the meaning
> 'pelican', so you may be in
> for an unpleasant surprise if you assume it is a
> species of
> goose. "Krop" is the part of a bird's anatomy
> ('gizzard'?) where food
> can be stored temporarily without being swallowed.
>
> Otherwise you're doing fine as usual.
>
> Willem
>
>

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