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    DICKEY-BIRD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birdsplay

    Synonyms:

    dickey-bird; dickeybird; dicky-bird; dickybird

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("dickey-bird" is a kind of...):

    bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

    Domain usage:

    colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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