Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several small plump North American birds of the genus Parus, having predominantly gray plumage and a dark-crowned head.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The popular name of the American black-capped titmouse, Parus atricapillus, and related species. The chickadees are small birds from 4½ to 5½ inches long, leaden-gray above and whitish below. They have a black cap and black throat.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America
Etymologies
- onomatopoeia (Wiktionary)
- Imitative of its call. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I have a close friend that I call chickadee ... love your card and it made me think happy thoughts of my friend today!”
“The chickadee, which is at home alike in the primitive woods and in our wood-lots, still retains its confidence in the towns to a remarkable degree.”
“The chickadee is my favorite - followed closely by the boy looking at the flower.”
“Moving along, I went on my computer last night and AIM was on, Mr. B was in the shower, and it seems he was about to have a conversation with someone named "chickadee" which I can only assume is a girl.”
“I asked him who "chickadee" was and his face turned sour and he said he had no idea who that was.”
“Imagine you're a Hudson Valley chickadee and all of a sudden you hear mongrel hordes closing in from both the north and south.”
“Not so much to the app's black-capped chickadee call, but to the Carolina chickadee's clean four- to six-note song.”
“Then I triggered the song of the Boreal chickadee.”
“A life where the cry of the chickadee announces a new season, a world where the return of salmon, silver in the whitewater, is celebrated as much, or more, than any holiday.”
“The list includes writers who: hold the first patent for a modern brassiere (Caresse Crosby); had a species of mountain chickadee named in her honor (Florence Bailey); got the famous cherry trees planted around the Tidal Basin (Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore); and had a crater named for her on the planet Venus (Clara Barton).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chickadee’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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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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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 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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Animals (besides pottos)
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robin, wagtail, frog, bunny, pronk, rabbit, fur, badger, mouse, bee, crepuscular, purr and 140 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 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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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chickadee.
yarb Gorgeous photo. Washington DC or State? Jan 23, 2008
reesetee Beautiful, SoG! A very talented friend indeed.
You'll be visiting the States?? You'd better wear your Groucho disguise or we'll come looking for you. ;-) Jan 23, 2008
sonofgroucho Here's a picture of one from my friend Kim---one of the best bird photographers on Flickr. I'm meeting her in Washington in April. Jan 23, 2008