chaackn.
The cry of the jackdaw.
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1906 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 13/2 With a little flutter of the wing and a cheery ‘Chaack!’ he hopped off one head on to another.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 19 Oct. 16/1 The cheering ‘cha-ack’ of the jackdaw is everywhere in the air.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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- to keep one's breath to cool one's pottage
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- to keep one's counsel
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- to keep one's cut
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