Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hedge-sparrow, Accentor modularis. Also
dick-dunnock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Local, Eng. The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
European andAsian passerine bird , Prunella modularis, thehedge sparrow
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small brownish European songbird
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Examples
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It is known to have mild effects on a wide range of British birds such as the dunnock, house sparrow, starling and the wood pigeon.
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The coldest December on record had driven them to warmer climes, and during the day I managed to miss goldfinch, greenfinch, dunnock and song thrush as well.
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Not so its near orthographic neighbour the dunnock, which may not be too well, numbers-wise, but is still with us.
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It moved with the jerky progress of a mouse, a lovely bird full of bright character, like a runt dunnock, severely streaked but with a cocked tail and a beady eye, and just four inches long.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!"
Signs of spring Carla 2008
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The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!"
Archive 2008-02-01 Carla 2008
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And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!
Wuthering Heights 2002
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And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!
Wuthering Heights 1847
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And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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Can your children identify the rambling ditty of a dunnock?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word dunnock
"As we strolled alongside the Marshes, the reservoir embankments, he pointed out grey wagtail, dunnock."
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair, p 57 of the Penguin paperback edition
January 26, 2012