单词 | birdlet |
释义 | birdletn. A little or young bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > [noun] > small chirper1599 birdling1611 dicky bird1744 birdie1768 birdlet1823 dicky1844 cockyolly bird1857 birdikin1860 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 497 The words floated to my pleased ear, soft, low, and indistinct, as the gentle talk of a dreaming birdlet. 1924 Cosmopolitan Apr. 52/1 An ardent young recruit to the forces of humane endeavor..vigilantly on the outlook for excuse to exercise his powers in behalf of birdlet or beastling. 2011 Times (Nexis) 18 June 21 This merlin on my fist was impossibly minute: a birdlet, a pared-to-the-bone précis of avian deadliness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1823 |
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