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ˈmock-bird
[f. mock n.1 + bird n.]
The American mocking-bird, Mimus polyglottus.
1649Perf. Descr. Virginia (1837) 15 One Bird we call the Mock-bird; for he will imitate all other Birds Notes. 1709Steele Tatler No. 51 ⁋4 The Indian Fowl, called the Mock-Bird, who has no Note of his own. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) II. 337 The American Mock-bird. Ibid. 338 The mock-bird is ever surest to please when it is most itself. 1809Campbell Gertr. Wyom. i. iii, From merry mock-bird's song. a1854C. A. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 13 The pretty mockbird with his borrowed notes Tells thee sweet truth.
b. Applied to the Sedge-warbler and the Blackcap (cf. mocking-bird 2).
1831G. Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 326 Mock Bird, a name applied to the Sedge Bird. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 582.
c. fig.
1800Southey Let. to Coleridge 8 Jan., Moses will be a very mock-bird as to languages. 1823Byron Island ii. xiii, Sweep these mere mock-birds of the despot's song From the tall bough where they have perch'd so long. |