turbé

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turbé m (plural turbés)

1. (Guernsey) wryneck, mackerel bird
   • 1883, Denys Corbet, ‘Le R'nouvé’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:

     Ot-tu l'turbé qu'égache en d'sous d'la f'nêtre, / Et qui l'prumier l'aguinche à sa façon?

     Can you hear the mackerel bird beneath the window, the first to welcome her in his own way?

• türbé

• IPA^(key): /tyrˈbe/

turbé

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turbé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of turbar