Words similar to partridge

Example sentences for: partridge

How can you use “partridge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The last example (Eric Partridge tells us) is a nickname for a chamberpot originating in India c. 1870, and is derived from the noise therein caused].
A new album from the real-life band that inspired the Partridge Family!
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
Partridge came through Old French and Latin perdīcem, from Greek pérdīx `partridge,' which is related to pérdesthai `to fart.
Special mention should be made of the fact that there are some items in this lexicon similar to those in the classic Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , by Eric Partridge (8th Edition, 1984), which first appeared in 1937.