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单词 dingle-bird
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dingle-birdn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dingle v., bird n.
Etymology: < dingle v. + bird n. Compare earlier bell-bird n.
Australian. poetic. Obsolete. rare.
The bell miner, Manorina melanophrys, an Australian honeyeater with a tinkling, bell-like call.
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1856 C. Harpur in Empire (Sydney) 15 July 2/1 I drink, and muse,—or mark the wide-spread herd, Or list the tinkling of the dingle-bird.
1861 F. S. Wilson in Empire (Sydney) 8 July 3/4 For the love-tale which greeted it only Was the dingle-bird's eloquent song.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021).
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