dicky-bird

I don't understand, all I see for cake no.4 is a little dicky-bird...

Easter Indiscretions 2010

Funny one hardly hears a dicky-bird from the Orient on the matter.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

I shall say that the writer may have mastered the dicky-bird language on the flints that they call

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

I am a man of strict business habits, and some powers of observation; my little squirrel's assurances that there is nothing in the box, combined with her obvious anxiety that I should not go and see for myself, satisfy me that it is indeed empty, in spite of the fact that I have not invariably found her a strictly truthful little dicky-bird.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Various

"It isn't 'measly' and it isn't a 'dicky-bird!'" she answered indignantly.

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

"Do ye mean," he observed, "you come back here for that measly dicky-bird?"

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

"Here's an old sourdough like me hittin 'the trail with a broom in one fist and -- by he -- hen, a dicky-bird in the other!"

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

But all I can do is warble like a darn 'dicky-bird.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_.

INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace Lorimer 1902