α. 1800s chiparee, 1800s chipparee.
β. 1800s– chickaree, 1900s chickeree.
chickareen.
/ˈtʃɪkəriː/, /tʃɪkəˈriː/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪkəˌri/ North American.
More fully chickaree squirrel. Any of the North American pine squirrels constituting the genus Tamiasciurus, which typically have greyish-brown fur with paler underparts. Quot. 1804 may refer to the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis.
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red squirrel1682
chickaree1804
mountain boomer1858
1804 G. T. Hopkins Diary 13 Mar. in Friends' Intelligencer (1862) 1 Feb. 745/2 They are the most active squirrel I ever saw, and are called by the mountaineers the Chipparee Squirrel.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 206 The larger red squirrel or chickaree, sometimes called the Hudson Bay squirrel.
1893 T. Roosevelt Wilderness Hunter ix. 173 The chickarees often ascend to the highest pine tops, where they cut off the cones.
1922 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Sept. 134/1 Even the small red squirrel, chickeree, has had some sale, locally here and there.
1986 Great Basin Naturalist 46 412/1 We used fecal extracts from both the flying squirrel and the chickaree (Tamiasciurus douglasi).
2002 M. Burton & R. Burton Internat. Wildlife Encycl. (ed. 3) IV. 436/1 Three species of tree squirrels..are known as chickarees because of the abrasive, drawn-out churr-churr calls they utter when disturbed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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