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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wagtail, a bird.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The pied wagtail.

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  • noun UK, dialect The pied wagtail, a small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, a subspecies of the white wagtail, found in Britain and Ireland.

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  • Nickname for the wagtail.

    October 12, 2011