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Definition of Chickadees
1. chickadee [n] - See also: chickadee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chickadees
Literary usage of Chickadees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Song Play Book: Singing Games for Children by Mary A. Wollaston, Charles Ward Crampton, Mary (Wollaston) Wood (1917)
"Five little chickadees, Peeping at the door; One flew away, 3. Three little
chickadees, Looking at you; One flew away, And then there were four. ..."
2. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"... PARIN/E. Titmice and chickadees. Small birds, less than 6.50 inches long;
wing, less than 3.50 in the largest; first primary, very short and small; ..."
3. The Silver-Burdett Readers by Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet (1906)
"chickadees. Chick-chick-a-dee-dee! saucy note Out of sound heart and merry throat,
As if it said Good-day, good Sir ! Fine afternoon, old passenger! ..."
4. The Morse Readers; Practical Graded Text by Ella Marie Powers (1902)
"chickadees. Chick-chick-a-dee-dee! saucy note - - Out of sound heart and merry
throat, As if it said Good-day, good Sir ! Fine afternoon, old passenger ! ..."
5. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"The Nuthatches and other cousins of the chickadees took this warning seriously,
and set about learning how and when to go ; but the Tomtit only laughed and ..."
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