Dabchick

·noun A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving;

— called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

dabchick
n. common English bird-name. The NewZealand species is Podiceps rufipectus. There is nospecies in A...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris