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单词 warbler
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warblern.

Brit. /ˈwɔːblə/, U.S. /ˈwɔrb(ə)lər/
Etymology: < warble v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who, or something which, warbles or sings; a singer, songster.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun]
songsterOE
singerc1330
chantera1387
singster1388
voicea1513
modulatora1527
chorister1589
songman1603
cantor1609
warbler1611
melodist1789
vocalist1790
cantator1866
vocaller1876
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gasouilleur, a warbler, chirper.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iv. ii. 12 in 3 New Playes (1655) And you Warbler Keep your Wind-pipe moist, that you may not spit and hem, When you should make division.
1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 19 At her call, Comes Blackbird, Linit, Alph, Thrush, Nightingal, Melodious warblers.
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xiv. 20 Nor for the worthless bird of brighter plumes Would change the meanest warbler of my grove.
a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 102 Your wish To supersede all warblers here below.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women vi, in Poems (new ed.) 123 Dan Chaucer, the first warbler.
1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs ii. 23 The sun had not yet risen, and all, save the warblers of the woods, was still.
b. slang.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > singer for money or drink
warbler1823
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Warblers, singers who go about to ‘free and easy’ meetings, to chaunt for pay, for grog, or for the purpose of putting off benefit-tickets.
c. slang. A female singer.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] > female
singeressa1382
chantressc1390
singing girl1535
songstress1684
music-girl1734
cantatrice1803
chanteuse1823
canary1862
singstress1873
chantoosie1940
thrush1940
warbler1946
1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 125/2 Warbler, girl singer.
1961 Times 21 Nov. 13/2 Barbara Holt, making her stage debut, displayed the promise of an uncommon warbler.
1981 TV Picture Life Mar. 16/1 (caption) Regardless of where her love life leads, the warbler is very much in demand for films these days.
d. colloquial. A telephone which warbles. Cf. warble v.1 4c.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death vii. 106 ‘I didn't hear a telephone, did you?’ ‘It's one of the new warblers.’
2.
a. In the Old World: Any one of the numerous small plain-coloured singing-birds of the family Sylviinae, including the blackcap, white-throat, and others having names in which warbler is the second element, as garden-warbler, grasshopper warbler n. at grasshopper n. Compounds 2b, reed warbler n., sedge-warbler, willow-warbler, wood-warbler.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun]
warbler1773
fauvette1797
peggy1836
sylviad1867
Pallas's warbler1881
1773 T. Pennant Genera of Birds 35 Warblers.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. Pl. LVI Dartford Warbler.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 366 The Warblers have a weak and slender bill.
1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 104 Sylvia Suecica, Lath. (Blue-throated Warbler).
1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 108 Sylvia Atricapilla, Lath. (Black-cap Warbler).
1890 C. Dixon Ann. Bird Life 41 Of the five species of Warbler that stray here in the spring, three of them, the Aquatic Warbler, the Great Reed Warbler, and the Icterine Warbler, are regular visitors to France.
b. In America: One of the small, usually bright-coloured, birds, with little power of song, of the family Mniotiltidae.
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 482 Spotted Yellow Warbler, Le Figuier brun de Canada.
1808–14 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1831) II. 162 Sylvia autumnalis, Wilson.—Autumnal Warbler.
1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 211 Audubon figures and describes over forty different warblers.
1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 212 The rarest of the species are..the cerulean warbler, said to be abundant about Niagara; and the mourning-ground warbler, which I have found breeding about the head-waters of the Delaware.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 93 Helmitherus vermivorus. Worm-eating Warbler.
c. In Australia and New Zealand: A bird of the genera Gerygone, Malurus, and others.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Malurinae (wren-warbler) > genus Malurus
superb warbler1789
warbler1790
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone
warbler1790
rainbird1817
riroriro1835
fly-eater1895
bush-warbler1898
bush canary1904
1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales App. 256 Superb Warblers.
1889 Parker Catal. N.Z. Exhib. 119 Grey Warbler (Gerygone flaviventris) also belongs to an Australian genus.
1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketches Nat. Hist. Austral. 136 The Wrens and Warblers—chiefly Maluri, with the allied Amytis and Stipiturus—are purely Australian.
3. Scottish. A group of grace-notes on the bagpipe.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > grace-note > specific
elevation1659
port de voix1729
appoggiatura1753
leaning-note1811
warbler1875
Nachschlag1879
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 235/2 The players introduce among the simple notes of the tune a kind of appoggiatura, consisting of a great number of rapid notes of peculiar embellishment, which they term warblers.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxv. 257 Variations, which..he decorated with a pefect flight of grace-notes, such as pipers love, and call the ‘warblers’.
1894 J. A. Steuart In Day of Battle viii He owned I was no hand at the warblers.
4. Little Warbler: apparently the title of a song-book.‘The Little Warbler. Scotch Songs’ is the title of a chap-book of about 1820. There may have been other books with the same title; the British Museum has three collections of songs called ‘The Warbler’, 1760 (?), 1772, and 1840 (?).
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1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 37 A vast number of things..such as a ball of string, a piece of candle, a comb, a whip-lash, a little warbler.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) v. 39 He..bought him..presents of knives,..toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
warbler tribe n.
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1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/1 With..all the lesser warbler tribe to bear them company.
b.
warbler-like adj.
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1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 102 The mottled Warbler-like eggs which are often found.
C2.
warbler thrush n. Obsolete a North American olive-brown thrush.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > catharus guttatus (hermit-thrush) > catharus ustulatus (Swainson's thrush)
warbler thrush1817
olive-backed thrush1842
oliveback1845
Swainson's thrush1869
olive thrush1904
1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. 197 Warbler Thrush (Turdus motacilla).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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