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chickadee N. Amer.|tʃɪkəˈdiː|
Also chicadee.
[Named from its note.]
The Black-cap Titmouse (Parus atricapillus) of N. America. Also used as a term of endearment to a woman.
1838Thoreau Jrnl. 23 Sept. (1949) I. 60 The chickadee is more than usually familiar. 1854― Walden iv. (1886) 124 The chicadee lisps amid the evergreens. 1884E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Mar. 615/1 We all know the lively black-capped chickadees. 1940Times 20 May 4/5 Mr. [W. C.] Fields is magnificently flamboyant and rhetorical..but, hard as he works, My Little Chickadee obstinately refuses to gather momentum. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §185/2 Pet names; terms of endearment. (Frequently prefaced ‘my’ or ‘little’.) Angel,..chickadee. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 823/2 In North America some Parus spp. are called ‘chickadees’, the best known being the Blackcapped Chickadee P. atricapillus. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 9/7 Here in the woods was the usual sparse sprinkling of chickadees and nothing else. 1968Listener 23 May 678/1 Mr Durrell, looking so much like a sober W. C. Fields that one expected him to address Joan Bakewell as ‘my little chickadee’. |