Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See. pettichaps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily
Sylviinæ , as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis ).
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- noun Any of several
species of smallEuropean songbirds of thesubfamily Sylviinae, including the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
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Examples
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a score of miles to pick off half a dozen pettychaps, or fig-peckers; wonderful expeditions, whence they returned with their bags empty, or with a mere bat, which they had managed to bring down while discharging their guns at the outskirts of the town.
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
hernesheir commented on the word pettychaps
It's a bird.
pettichaps
September 26, 2011