[Meaning] the fighting quail. [So called] from hitting strongly. "Having been struck in the head by a stick-boaster."
*stufoko/mpos: o( ma/ximos o)/rtuc. para\ to\ sterew=s ko/ptein. u(po\ stufoko/mpou th\n kefalh\n peplhgme/nos.
Aristophanes,
Birds 1299, with scholion; cf.
Hesychius sigma2104, where the gloss is "a fighting cock".
Adler reports no mss variants in the Suda, but elsewhere -- the mss of
Aristophanes and the
scholia, and
Pollux 7.136.4 and 9.107.7 -- there is ambiguity between
stufoko/mpos and
stufoko/pos; see the translated headwords above.
The reference is to the game of "quail-tapping," for which see
omicron 642.
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