Definition of Dickybird

1. Noun. Small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds.

Exact synonyms: Dickey-bird, Dickeybird, Dicky-bird
Generic synonyms: Bird
Language type: Colloquialism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dickybird

diclazuril
diclinic
diclinies
diclinism
diclinisms
dicliny
diclofenac
diclofenac sodium
diclofensine
diclosulam
dicloxacillin
dicloxacillin sodium

Literary usage of Dickybird

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1894)
""Mamma would make me give your dance to that pudgy little monster "—that's Pop- pleton—"but if you'll be a dear, darling, patient dickybird"—what a poetic ..."

2. Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir Compiled Chiefly by Charles L. Reade (1887)
"dickybird," he writes from Magdalen, " comes down to-day to sit for his portrait (unconsciously). ..."

3. The New Far East by Arthur Diósy (1904)
"Illustrated. Cloth, 3s. 6d. ; gilt edges, 5s. STRANGE ADVENTURES IN dickybird LAND. Stories told by Mother Birds to amuse their Chicks, ..."

4. Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph it by Richard Kearton (1901)
"STRANGE ADVENTURES IN dickybird LAND. Stories told by Mother Birds to amuse their Chicks, and overheard by R. KEARTON, FZS With Illustrations from ..."

5. The Partridge: Natural History by H. A. Macpherson, Archibald John Stuart-Wortley, George Saintsbury (1896)
"Even a field mouse is curious to know why any little change has occurred in his preserves ; his peering eyes often discover a dickybird's nest that we had ..."

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