caique
nounEtymology From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.
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Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.
caique
noun/kɑːˈiːk/ · /kaɪˈiːk/
Etymology Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.
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Nautical, Transport A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
- Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
- Derived terms
- caïquejee