‖fiskaal, noun

/fəsˈkɑːl/
Forms:
Also fiskal.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, see fiscal.
The fiscal (sense 2), Lanius collaris.
1888 Cape Punch 4 Apr. 203All the fiskaals and rooibekkies That I always used to catch.
1910 A.B. Lamont Rural Reader 99The cunning little shrike (fiskaal) that hangs his prey on thorn bushes.
1923 Haagner & Ivy Sketches of S. Afr. Bird-Life 160The commonest..is the ordinary Fiskal..whose shambles is a well-known sight to every South African.
1930 N. Stevenson Farmers of Lekkerbat 155The fiskaal was filling its large larder, it never had enough.
1936 E.L. Gill First Guide to S. Afr. Birds 46The Fiskaal..habitually sits on telegraph wires...Noted for killing canaries in cages...Commonly supposed to imitate small birds’ songs and so lure them to their doom.
1945 N. Devitt People & Places 145Jacky Hangman is..the Natal name for the butcher bird, known in the Cape as the fiskaal.
1973 O.H. Spohr tr. of F. Krauss’s Trav. Jrnl 12The cheerful fiskal..found everywhere hunting insects.
The fiscal (sense 2), Lanius collaris.
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fish oil, noun phrasen. phr.flaaitaal, nounn.
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