[ˈdʌvki], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small, stubby short-billed auk (seabird) with black plumage and white underparts, breeding in the Arctic; a little auk


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Origin:
early 19th century (originally denoting the black guillemot, Cepphus grylle, also formerly called the Greenland dove): from a Scots diminutive of dove