Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small warbler (Phylloscopus collybita) of Eurasia and Africa, having yellowish-green plumage.
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- noun A small, common
warbler , Phylloscopus collybita, with yellowish-green plumage that breeds throughout northern and temperateEurope andAsia . - noun Any of several other species of the same
genus . - noun UK, onomatopoeic, uncountable the
song of thechiffchaff .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A short car tour and a lengthy walk turn up not even a fleeting glimpse of a wheatear's white rump, and so we set off for Airidh nam Ban in the hope of at least hearing a chiffchaff among the trees there even if we don't see one.
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But there is neither sight nor sound of a chiffchaff.
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Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet.
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
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Others contributing to the soundtrack include the goldcrest, blackbird, thrush, chiffchaff, wren, mallard, coot and even the garden bully, the wood pigeon.
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By July, the dawn chorus is virtually silent compared with the cacophony of spring but a chiffchaff still sounded in the distance.
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
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• You'll mainly hear song thrush and chiffchaff from around 2:14 onwards.
Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species 2010
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They greeted me with warmth, and soon Dulcis began to chatter like a chiffchaff about a new suitor, and I was wholeheartedly grateful that she was more interested in herself than me.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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They greeted me with warmth, and soon Dulcis began to chatter like a chiffchaff about a new suitor, and I was wholeheartedly grateful that she was more interested in herself than me.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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March 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word chiffchaff
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April 20, 2009