Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Either of two small, long-tailed birds (Psaltriparus minimus or P. melanotis) of western North America, having predominantly gray plumage.
Wiktionary
- n. A North American long-tailed tit, of the genus Psaltriparus, that has mostly grey plumage
Etymologies
- bush + tit (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren.”
“The most common birds seen in the dry summer season are wrentit, common bushtit, and rufous-sided towhee.”
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)
“So I just spellchecked something I'm working on, and spellcheck flagged the word "bullshit" and wanted to replace it with the word "bushtit.”
“Several times I've been down there I go "down" the main part of my flower garden and I've heard that unmistakeable squeak like a bushtit on steroids and it's come and posed and flashed its colours at me and of course I haven't had my camera with me.”
“Not to mention the bird that's got it all, the bushtit … pete Says:”
“Our capital city is also full of bushtit, if you change spelling a bit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bushtit’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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More Bird Wirds: North America
Birds endemic to the United States and/or North America.
toucan, peacock, weaver, bullfinch, redpoll, siskin, crossbill, finch, rosy-finch, oriole, cowbird, blackbird and 213 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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The No-No List
Words I absolutely will not say aloud to people unless I'm sure they know exactly what I'm talking about. Also words that require great diligence in pronunciation, so no one is offended by a slight...
sects, norfolk, dam, niggardly, shih tzu, push it, gaze, retardant, seaman, penal, cummin, frigate and 42 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
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Perfectly good words my mom wouldn't ...
shiitake, pismire, niggard, fescue, bustard, bushtit, asinine, hoarfrost
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bushtit.
pomegranate These little birds come in droves to the suet feeders in my backyard. Visitors often ask me what they are and turn bright red when I tell them. I've resorted to calling them "bushtips" in certain company. This works well, because they often use my rhododendron bushes as staging areas for rapid-strike missions on the suet. Dec 6, 2007