Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given to the rice-bunting, Dolichonyx oryzirorus, in Jamaica, where it is in great request for the table. See cut under
bobolink .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Jamaica The
bobolink .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
butter + bird, from its fatness.
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Examples
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Your hands were like hummingbirds or butterflies Stay with us Lucius you said but it was harder and harder to hear you and I could only feel you instead your hummingfly hands your butterbird fingers.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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