The Collaborative International Dictionary
Figpecker \Fig"peck`er\ (f[i^]g"p[e^]k`[~e]r), n. (Zo["o]l.) The European garden warbler ( Sylvia hortensis or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
Wiktionary
n. A small bird, (taxlink Sylvia hortensis species noshow=1), the figpecker.
Usage examples of "beccafico".
Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes.
Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes.
Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser - he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.
Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.