Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The gardenwarbler, Sylvia hortensis.
  • noun Some similar British warbler, as the willow-warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus, or the chiffchaff, P. rufus. See also cut under chiffchaff. Also pettychaps.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See pettychaps.

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  • noun Alternative form of pettychaps.

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  • A rare, and I think a new, little bird frequents my garden, which I have great reason to think is the pettichaps: it is common in some parts of the kingdom; and I have received formerly several dead specimens from

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

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  • "'But you will admit that it is whimsical to make distinctions between the lesser pettichaps and her kin, counting their wing-feathers, measuring their bills, and to neglect the albatrosses, the great soaring birds of the world...'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 147–148

    March 4, 2008

  • Ooh, another bird nickname! Thanks, c_b.

    March 4, 2008