DABCHICK

Alternate my ass. These dictionaries are seemingly everywhere lately. Picked this one up at the library for a buck before work. Dabchick sounds like it means a girl that dabs a lot but apparently means dimple, dip or dive or something like that.

DABCHICK

see DEEP

DEEP 

[OE] Deep is a member of a quite extensive and heterogeneous family of English words. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *deupaz (source also of German tief, Dutch diep, and Swedish djup), which was a derivative of the base *d(e)u- 'deep, hollow.' This may also have been the ancestor of the first syllable of dabchick 'little grebe' [I6] (which would thus mean literally 'diving duck'), while a nasalized version of it may underlie dimple. It produced dip, and a variant has given us dive.

>dabchick, dimple, dip, dive



from the Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto