whisky jack
noun Canadian
Another term for grey jay.There is a downy woodpecker on one of the birdfeeders and whisky jacks darting across the frosty boughs....
- In camp, entertainment by chipmunks, red squirrels, whisky jacks, and snowshoe hares will keep you chuckling.
- Chimpanzees and whisky jacks share the habit of assembling jumbles of trash.
Origin
Late 18th century: alteration of whisky john, corruption of Cree wiskatjan, Montagnais wi:skača:n 'blacksmith', possibly with reference to the grey and black plumage.
- poetastrical
- poetastry
- poetaz
- poetdom
- poetese
- poetess
- poetette
- poethood
- poetic
- looking-glass image
- looking-glass land
- looking-glass plate
- looking-glass tree
- looking-glass world
- looking-glass writing
- looking in
- looking on
- looking over
- looking to
- lookism
- lookist
- lookit
- look kindly on
- look like a bomb's hit it
- look like something the cat brought in