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单词 chip-bird
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chip-birdn.

Brit. /ˈtʃɪpbəːd/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪpˌbərd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of imitative origin, bird n.
Etymology: < an element of imitative origin + bird n. Compare earlier chipping bird n. and chip n.3, and later chip v.3
North American. Now rare.
Any of various small sparrows with a call resembling the word ‘chip’; spec. the chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina.
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chipping bird1791
chipping sparrow1810
chip-bird1824
chip sparrow1843
chippy1856
1824 New Eng. Farmer 1 May 317/1 The destruction of a robin, chip, blue or black bird, is not all.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 15 The only bird I have ever heard sing in the night has been the chip-bird.
1894 Oölogist 11 208/1 The familiar chip, chip of the Tree Sparrow or ‘Winter Chip Bird’.
1902 Auk 19 85 It [sc. the savannah sparrow] is known as the ‘Chipbird’, as are most of the small sparrows in the north, and is mentioned by all, I think, of the writers on the Labrador avifauna.
1951 Amer. Speech 26 274 Winter chipbird. Canadian sparrow. Mass., Ontario, Ohio, Ky., Wis., Minn.
2014 P. Levang Bird Bk. 42/2 The Chipping Sparrow has other names. It is sometimes called Chippy, Chip-Bird, Hair-Bird, Social Sparrow, Hair Sparrow, or Little House Sparrow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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