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bobolink U.S.|ˈbɒbəlɪŋk|
Also bob-a-link, bob-a-linkum; boblincoln, -lincon, boblink, bob-o'-linck, (bob-o-lincoln, bob-o-linkhorn, Audubon).
[app. at first Bob Lincoln, or Bob o' Lincoln, a free rendering of the note or call of the bird.]
A North American singing-bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), which appears in the northern states in spring, and returns southwards at the end of summer. Called also Reed-bird and Rice-bird.
1774J. Adams Diary 24 Oct. in Wks. (1865) II. 401 Young Ned Rutledge is a perfect Bob-o-Lincoln. 1783[see Conquedle]. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 210 Boblincoln. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 75 In the merry month of June..[when] the luxurious little boblincon revels among the clover blossoms of the meadows. 1826T. Flint Recoll. 243 Those merry and chattering birds, that we call bob-a-link, or French blackbird. 1840W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 20 The happiest bird of our spring..is the Boblincon, or Boblink, as he is commonly called. 1840C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer III. i. 104 There he goes..singing for all the world like a Bob-a-linkum on the wing. 1847Tom Pepper I. 145 (Th.), I heard her voice, which was sweeter than a bob-o'-linck's. 1849T. Parker Wks. VII. 243 Who listen to the whippoorwill and the bobolink. 1855in Life W. Irving IV. 163 The history of the boblink, or bob-o-lincoln. 1879Lowell Poet Wks. 372 The bobolink has come. |