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Definition of Dickybird
1. Noun. Small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds.
Generic synonyms: Bird
Language type: Colloquialism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dickybird
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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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