| 单词 | dicky-bird |
| 释义 | dicky-bird (once / 171295 pages) n WORD FAMILY dicky-bird USAGE EXAMPLESHe went to catch a dicky-bird, And thought he could not fail, Because he had got a little salt To put upon his tail. Various, The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes(2012) “Get in here, Dicky-bird,” she said, slipping the mocking bird from the cage into her blouse. Stokes, Katherine, The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine(2011) I had a feeling as if a little dicky-bird were singing in my heart. Whitehead, Harold, Dawson Black: Retail Merchant(2011) n small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds Syn|Hyper dickey-bird, dickeybird, dickybird bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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