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Stork

//stɔɹk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. 2
    large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage wordnet
  3. 3
    The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. euphemistic

    "My sister's expecting a visit from the stork."

  4. 4
    The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

Etymology 2

Two main origins: * English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs. * Borrowed from German Stork, probably a nickname or a habitational surname from a place in Hesse.

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