chipping birdn.

Brit.

/ˈtʃɪpɪŋ bəːd/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɪpɪŋ ˌbərd/

Forms: 1700s– chipping bird, 1800s chippen bird, 1800s chippin' bird.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of imitative origin, -ing suffix², bird n.

Etymology: Apparently < an element of imitative origin (compare cheep v.) + -ing suffix² + bird n. Compare earlier chipping squirrel n. and later chip-bird n., chip n.³, 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. Cf. chip-bird n.

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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 289 Passer domesticus; the little house sparrow or chipping bird.

1810 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 127 The Chipping-bird builds his nest most commonly in a cedar bush.

1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island i. viii. 58 I've seen 'em big as chippin-birds' eggs.

1875 J. Burroughs in R. Johnson Little Classics XVII. 68 The snow-bird, or ‘black chipping-bird’, as it is known among the farmers, is the finest architect of any of the ground-builders known to me.

1998 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 3 May 2C/1 Chippies, or chipping sparrows, are the smallest of their species. You may know them by the name Chip-bird,..or Red-headed Chipping Bird.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	chipping bird
释义	chipping birdn. Brit. /ˈtʃɪpɪŋ bəːd/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪpɪŋ ˌbərd/ Forms: 1700s– chipping bird, 1800s chippen bird, 1800s chippin' bird. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of imitative origin, -ing suffix², bird n. Etymology: Apparently < an element of imitative origin (compare cheep v.) + -ing suffix² + bird n. Compare earlier chipping squirrel n. and later chip-bird n., chip n.³, 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. Cf. chip-bird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Spizella > spizella passerina (chipping sparrow) chipping bird1791 chipping sparrow1810 chip-bird1824 chip sparrow1843 chippy1856 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 289 Passer domesticus; the little house sparrow or chipping bird. 1810 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 127 The Chipping-bird builds his nest most commonly in a cedar bush. 1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island i. viii. 58 I've seen 'em big as chippin-birds' eggs. 1875 J. Burroughs in R. Johnson Little Classics XVII. 68 The snow-bird, or ‘black chipping-bird’, as it is known among the farmers, is the finest architect of any of the ground-builders known to me. 1998 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 3 May 2C/1 Chippies, or chipping sparrows, are the smallest of their species. You may know them by the name Chip-bird,..or Red-headed Chipping Bird. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1791
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