Thick-knees and names, yet again

[Scot Mcphee <>]

On 09/04/2007, at 10:21 AM, russ lamb wrote:

> Philip,
>         My Dutch-born wife informs me that "kop" is a Dutch word  
> meaning "head", hence the SA Boer usage. (A mld form of teasing is  
> to call someone a "kasskop", literally a "cheesehead")
so then, in africa the stone-curlew are dik-heads? better to be a  
thick-knee (!) <ducks>


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