Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chaffinch, Fringilla cælebs, whose cry is thought to foretell. rain. See cut under
chaffinch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect The
chaffinch .
Etymologies
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wet + bird; the chaffinch's cry was believed to foretell rain.
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