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A lapwing is a smallish European bird, black and white, with a thin crest of feathers standing up on its head — a little combed into a peak. You see it on fields and wet , often calling as it flies. The flight looks a bit wild: it tumbles and changes direction. That leaping, signalling flight is why the old name was about leaping and winking (making a quick sign), not about wings at all. Though actually, the modern spelling lapwing looks as if it were lap + wing, and that is a folk story the spelling grew to match. The bird has wings, of course, but that is not how the name was born. Birdwatchers still say lapwing; many other people would just say “that bird with the crest.”
小辮鴴（中國大陸鳥類圖鑑多稱「鳳頭麥雞」）
組成From Middle English lapwynge, lapwynke, and related spellings, from Old English hlēapewince, from hlēapan (“to leap”) + wincian (“to wink, make a sign”), from the manner of its flight. Cognate with West Frisian ljip. The modern form is influenced by folk etymology so that it resembles English wing.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lapwingnoun/ˈlæpwɪŋ/
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Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
- Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
- The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
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Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
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obsoleteA silly man.
- This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。