Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bird having a melodious song or call.
- noun Any of various birds of the suborder Passeri (formerly Oscines) of passerine birds, having a syrinx with musculature that allows for the production and learning of complicated songs; an oscine.
- noun A woman singer with a pleasing voice.
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- noun A
bird having amelodious song or call.
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- noun any bird having a musical call
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I'd finished this book, I felt like a cage from which the songbird is being removed.
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The twenty-six year old songbird is currently at odds with her husband’s parents.
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Last week I used a program called songbird and it worked fine first time with my two ipods.
LinuxQuestions.org 2009
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Perhaps this would help to explain why his fellow Viet Nam prisoners nicknamed him "songbird"?
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What about McCain's POW experience I read that he was a "songbird" to the viet-cong for special treatment.
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The far right has merciless accused John McCain of being a Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed by his captors and of having been a "songbird" who sold out his fellow prisoners.
Bart Motes: Americans Have Never Made Fun of Former Prisoners of War 2008
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Perhaps you don't understand what prompts his temper tantrums, or why his excuse for every mistake relates to his "songbird" days as a prisoner of war.
Gary Cohan: Conduct Unbecoming: John McCain's Dishonorable Endgame 2008
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I'm just going to have to put all of it in one big file and use 'songbird' and 'wolf' and every other associated term as part of a meta tag or something.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001
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A young girl who sang a solo for them was a "songbird," he said.
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Here is the result of typing "songbird" in the konsole:
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
john commented on the word songbird
A stylish open source media player, currently under development.
October 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word songbird
Hey, that is stylish! But... flagged. Wait 'til John hears about this, you spammer!
October 11, 2007
skipvia commented on the word songbird
Also the name of Sky King's plane.
October 11, 2007
john commented on the word songbird
Oh jebus. I have created a monster.
October 11, 2007
skipvia commented on the word songbird
Are you referring to Wordie, this discussion, or me?
October 11, 2007
reesetee commented on the word songbird
Probably all. ;-)
This is also a word for a small bird, usually in the Passeriformes Order (perching birds). But you knew that.
October 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word songbird
Bwahahahaha.
October 11, 2007
john commented on the word songbird
Sorry skipvia, we must have been commenting simultaneously, I hadn't seen your (sweet) Sky King reference yet. I was referring to the iron fist of Constable uselessness ;-)
October 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word songbird
So there's this guy and he's posting spam links on Wordie, can we ban his account?
October 11, 2007