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So, the next time comment is made about all those words that fill up (and are omitted from) the English dictionaries, remember the nightjar and the drunk , here and abroad.
In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').
This information he derived from The Nightjar Yesterday and Today , by Margaret Grainger and Richard Williamson (West Sussex Institute of Higher Education, Bishop Otter College), a source I have been unable to verify.
The last bird is an American nightjar , where jar is also an imitative word, referring to its loud churring cry.