The Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla). · An opportunist, a person with no principles. · A political opportunist after a regime change, particularly a communist in East Germany who switched to supporting capitalism after German reunification.
çekim: çoğul Wendehälse · tamlayan Wendehalses
eş: Opportunist
köken: From wenden (“turn around”) + Hals (“neck”).
stiff neck (condition characterised by pain when trying to move the neck) · wryneck (either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis)
çekim: çoğul torcicolos
köken: From Italian torcicollo. Equivalent to torce + colo.
a wryneck, specifically the Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
çekim: çoğul colltorts
köken: From coll (“neck”) + tort (“bent, twisted, crooked”), in sense 2 associating religious people to excessively bowing and looking downwards. Compare Italian collotorto.
aile: colltort comú, colltort gorja-roig
astayayái, formigueru, paxarón del agua
grcἴϋγξ
nrfouaîsé â blié, turbé
otaبویون بوران
segiegabiigá
shkrivošija, krivovrat
Etimoloji
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