jackdawn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒakdɔː/, U.S.

/ˈdʒækˌdɔ/,

/ˈdʒækˌdɑ/

Forms: see Jack n.² and daw n.; also 1600s jaikdow (Scottish), 1800s– jackdaa (English regional), 1800s– jackjaw (English regional (north-eastern)), 1900s– jacdaa (English regional), 1900s– jackda (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– jakedaw (Scottish).

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Jack , daw n.

Etymology: < the male forename Jack (see Jack n.²) + daw n. It is unclear whether, as suggested by the chronology of the earliest examples, sense 1 preceded sense 2a; if so, the original motivation was probably to denote a (male) person (compare Jack n.² 1a) likened to a jackdaw (daw n. 1) on account of being talkative. Alternatively, sense 2a may in fact have been the earliest, in which case the first element may perhaps be partly intended to imitate the bird's call. Compare later Jack n.² 37a(a). Perhaps compare also Middle French, French jaquette (1611 in Cotgrave) denoting a magpie or similar bird, and similar formations based ultimately on the male forename Jacques (see jack n.¹) in French regional use denoting the jay, magpie, or other birds (see Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at Jacobus).The position of the main stress varied in earlier use; N.E.D. (1900) notes ‘formerly stressed jack-ˈdaw..still in Scotland’.

1. A loquacious, prattling, or garrulous person; one who speaks incessantly or in a raucous voice. Cf. magpie n. 2a.With use as a depreciatory term for a person, compare earlier daw n. 2.In quot. ?1520, a depreciatory nickname for a talkative person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person

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jay-

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. B.ii^v I graunt to the, this pardon And gyue the absolucion For thy soth saws, stande vp Iack daw I be shrew thy faders sone.

1548 J. Ramsay Plaister for Galled Horse But thou thinkeste, that god is made of euery Jackedawe.

1581 T. Stocker tr. J. Calvin Diuers Serm. f. 26 Marke how these hypocriticall pratling Iacke dawes in Popery behaue them selues.

1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C2^v Bowyer a Captayn?..a very Iackdaw with his toung slit.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 6 With City-Jack-daws; That make Staple-Laws, To Measure by Yards and Ells.

1866 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Nov. 708/2 Smart, pert human jackdaws, saucily hopping through life, prying into every dark corner where a secret lay hid, and remorselessly chattering about the same when the riddle had been read.

1978 N. Pierce Praetorius Point vii. 58 They all were jackdaws here, gabbing away at all hours in the flurry of dates and partying.

2003 N.Y. Times 18 May (Washington Final ed.) a25/5 The emerging responsible faction has no time now for the witless applause lines the jeering jackdaws on left and right repeat to themselves to their own perpetual self-admiration and delight.

a. A small Eurasian crow having chiefly black plumage with grey on the neck and underparts, Corvus monedula, nesting in chimneys, old buildings, etc., and noted for its intelligence and raucous voice. Compare earlier daw n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus monedula (jackdaw)

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1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Lvij Not all vnlyke vnto Isopes choughe, whom we commonlye call Iacke dawe.

1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 223 Some cackles like a Henne, or a Iacke Dawe.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. xxix. 285 Choughes and iack dawes: the veriest theeves..especially for silver and gold.

1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 32 And may the Jack-daws still the Steeples hold.

1741 A. Pope et al. Art of Sinking 211 in A. Pope Wks. II. The Paranomasia, or Pun, where a Word, like the tongue of a jackdaw, speaks twice as much by being split.

1769 G. White Let. 2 Jan. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 60 Jackdaws building with us under the ground in rabbit-burrows.

1840 R. H. Barham Jackdaw of Rheims in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 217 In and out, Through the motley rout, That little Jackdaw kept hopping about.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 283 The jackdaw..could not keep silence to save his life, but must talk after his fashion.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. ix. 65 His kicks and crows and splashings had the joy of a gnat's dance, or a jackdaw's gambols in the air.

1978 M. McLaverty Coll. Short Stories (1997) 243 From the broad lip of the chimney he hauled out abandoned jackdaws' nests and flung the bundles of sticks into the air.

2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk iv. 34 Jackdaws fuss in the sweet chestnut trees.

b. U.S. Any of several grackles of the genus Quiscalus; esp. the boat-tailed grackle, Q. major.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Quiscalus > quiscalus major (boat-tail)

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1729 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. i. Pl. 12 Monedula purpurea. The Purple Jack-Daw.

1832 T. Nuttall Man. Ornithol. U.S. & Canada: Land Birds 192 Quiscalus major... This large and Crow-like species, sometimes called the Jackdaw, inhabits the southern parts of the Union only.

1895 C. Bendire Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds 256 The Boat-tailed Grackle [is] also locally known as the ‘Thrush Blackbird’, ‘Boat-tailed Blackbird’, and ‘Jackdaw’.

1916 F. E. L. Beal Common Birds of S.E. U.S. in Relation to Agric. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 755) 3 The boll-worm, or corn-ear worm, is attacked by 12 southeastern birds, of which the boat-tailed grackle, or jackdaw, has the best record.

1951 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 41 510/1 The purple jackdaw (purple grackle).

2016 M. D. O'Brien Fool of N.Y. City ii. 51 ‘The jackdaw? What's a jackdaw?’ ‘The bird on a string in the self-portrait I painted..’. ‘Oh, right. We call them grackles, kind of a black-bird.’

3. figurative and in allusive use.

a. With allusion to the fable of the jackdaw in peacock's feathers: a conceited or haughty pretender or charlatan, a pretentious impostor; a plagiarist. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1699 Short Acct. Dr. Bentley's Humanity & Justice 31 He hates those Jack-daws, who, having borrowed their Feathers, strut like Peacocks.

1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. xlix. 34 Jack-daw poets with their stolen feathers.

1761 A. Murphy Examiner 14 Declar'd a plagiary, proclaim'd aloud A mere jack-daw in furtive colours proud.

1828 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 8 Oct. As simple Thomas P. Moore, he is the veriest Jackdaw that ever strutted in borrowed feathers.

1908 Catholic Educ. Assoc. Bull. Nov. 420 All empty pretence of being literary without a clear idea on any subject should be branded in every seminary for what it really is, jackdaw vanity strutting in borrowed peacock plumes.

1960 X. Fielding tr. P. Boulle Noble Profession i. 10 We now possess such standards of judgment that no impostor can possibly delude us, that..we can recognize at a glance any jackdaw in peacock's feathers.

b. An acquisitive or eclectic person; an indiscriminate collector or hoarder. Also occasionally: a thief or pilferer. Cf. magpie n. 2b.Cf. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun]

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slockster-

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxi. 299 In the corners again were sticks, kerries,..portions of an American clock, and various other articles which this human jackdaw had picked up and hidden away here.

1914 C. H. M. Gaskell Friends round Wrekin ii. 24 His last maid was a proper jackdaw, thieved like a Welsh woman, took off in all five gold pieces, his mother's picture on ivory, and his sister's patchwork quilt.

1962 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Aug. in Proud Highway (1997) 346 Hounded 24 hours a day by thieves, beggars,..dolts and human jackdaws of every shape and description.

1978 A. Leslie & P. Chapman Madame Tussaud vii. 84 Curtius must have been a veritable jackdaw who loved buying things, for every corner was jam-packed.

2000 Studio Potter June 15/2 I am a jackdaw, picking up the pretty, shiny things that I see here, wanting to make them my own.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as jackdaw chick, jackdaw call, jackdaw nest, etc.

ΚΠ

1826 Glasgow Herald 23 June 4/4 Three jackdaw nests, recently evacuated.

1888 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 135 Nowhere in Britain does greater interest attach to the jackdaw colony than on Iona, where they find shelter in the crannies of the great cathedral tower.

1933 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 231/1 The stoat might have been seen tussling to get a dead jackdaw chick up the cliff face.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 June (Final ed.) d6 Three birders from Penn State University were trundling off after watching all morning and seeing nary a jackdaw feather.

2006 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 10 Feb. Eastern crows that breed in Maine..do not react to the jackdaw calls.

C2. With the sense ‘reminiscent of the sound made by jackdaws, esp. in being raucous or incessant; loquacious, prattling, garrulous’. Cf. sense 1. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1834 S. E. Brydges Autobiogr. II. xviii. 250 Unjust words will neither still nor change his nature: no; nor disturb him long, however clamorously and exultingly the numerous malignants repeat the cry with a jackdaw chatter.

1920 Argosy 1 May 423/1 An ode to love, in a jackdaw voice, warbled Baptiste.

1931 Polit. Sci. Q. 46 122 Sometimes these human mastiffs are a welcome change from chattering jackdaw theorists and suave, feline politicians.

2010 Observer (Nexis) 25 July (Review section) 32 Spur of the Moment puts on stage the jackdaw chatter, the fluffy vulnerability and the vulture behaviour of pre-teen chicks..who, avid for experience, heartlessly hoover up the lives around them.

C3. With the sense ‘reminiscent of or characterized by the acquisitiveness, curiosity, etc., traditionally associated with jackdaws; varied, eclectic’. Cf. sense 3b, magpie adj. 2.

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1846 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 314 The jackdaw taste for hoarding was not among his [sc. Francis Bacon's] weaknesses.

1906 A. Hayden Chats on Old Prints i. 43 Another order of collector is the jackdaw collector, who must gather unto himself snippets of everything.

1914 H. G. Wells Wife Isaac Harman ix. 315 Sir Isaac's jackdaw acquisitiveness had also overcrowded the corner beyond the fireplace with a very fine and genuine Queen Anne cabinet.

1927 M. A. Buxton Kenya Days vi. 124 Pebbles, lions' claws, mysterious powders, a nail or two, a knife, a little twist of gunpowder—a jackdaw collection that only our most sophisticated boy..would touch.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 613/4 A certain jackdaw tendency is evident in the shape of an unrelated assembly of exhibition and booksellers' catalogues.

2016 P. Williams Bach ii. viii. 579 Bach's fugue-themes alone illustrate his jackdaw mind as clearly as anything in the big ensemble works.

Derivatives

ˈjackdaw-like adj.

ΚΠ

1831 Lady Morgan in Metropolitan June 133 There was something in the party so ravenish and jackdaw-like, that I fancied myself in the Propaganda, or among the protestant brotherhood of Sourcraut Hall.

1890 Athenæum 19 Apr. 498/2 In the Bodleian Library, where they now rest, thanks to the jackdaw-like propensities of Mr. Secretary Pepys.

1963 J. Rössel & K. Dutfield tr. N. Palmgren in J. Rössel & K. Dutfield tr. N. Palmgren et al. Sung Sherds 254 Black crows, small, grey jackdaw-like birds and kestrels were among the birds that somewhat livened up the plain.

2009 N. Upson Angel with Two Faces vi. 111 He should keep his jackdaw-like chatter for the play if he wanted to make his way in the Church.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	jackdaw
释义	jackdawn. Brit. /ˈdʒakdɔː/, U.S. /ˈdʒækˌdɔ/, /ˈdʒækˌdɑ/ Forms: see Jack n.² and daw n.; also 1600s jaikdow (Scottish), 1800s– jackdaa (English regional), 1800s– jackjaw (English regional (north-eastern)), 1900s– jacdaa (English regional), 1900s– jackda (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– jakedaw (Scottish). Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Jack , daw n. Etymology: < the male forename Jack (see Jack n.²) + daw n. It is unclear whether, as suggested by the chronology of the earliest examples, sense 1 preceded sense 2a; if so, the original motivation was probably to denote a (male) person (compare Jack n.² 1a) likened to a jackdaw (daw n. 1) on account of being talkative. Alternatively, sense 2a may in fact have been the earliest, in which case the first element may perhaps be partly intended to imitate the bird's call. Compare later Jack n.² 37a(a). Perhaps compare also Middle French, French jaquette (1611 in Cotgrave) denoting a magpie or similar bird, and similar formations based ultimately on the male forename Jacques (see jack n.¹) in French regional use denoting the jay, magpie, or other birds (see Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at Jacobus).The position of the main stress varied in earlier use; N.E.D. (1900) notes ‘formerly stressed jack-ˈdaw..still in Scotland’. 1. A loquacious, prattling, or garrulous person; one who speaks incessantly or in a raucous voice. Cf. magpie n. 2a.With use as a depreciatory term for a person, compare earlier daw n. 2.In quot. ?1520, a depreciatory nickname for a talkative person. 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Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. B.ii^v I graunt to the, this pardon And gyue the absolucion For thy soth saws, stande vp Iack daw I be shrew thy faders sone. 1548 J. Ramsay Plaister for Galled Horse But thou thinkeste, that god is made of euery Jackedawe. 1581 T. Stocker tr. J. Calvin Diuers Serm. f. 26 Marke how these hypocriticall pratling Iacke dawes in Popery behaue them selues. 1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C2^v Bowyer a Captayn?..a very Iackdaw with his toung slit. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 6 With City-Jack-daws; That make Staple-Laws, To Measure by Yards and Ells. 1866 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Nov. 708/2 Smart, pert human jackdaws, saucily hopping through life, prying into every dark corner where a secret lay hid, and remorselessly chattering about the same when the riddle had been read. 1978 N. Pierce Praetorius Point vii. 58 They all were jackdaws here, gabbing away at all hours in the flurry of dates and partying. 2003 N.Y. Times 18 May (Washington Final ed.) a25/5 The emerging responsible faction has no time now for the witless applause lines the jeering jackdaws on left and right repeat to themselves to their own perpetual self-admiration and delight. 2. a. A small Eurasian crow having chiefly black plumage with grey on the neck and underparts, Corvus monedula, nesting in chimneys, old buildings, etc., and noted for its intelligence and raucous voice. Compare earlier daw n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus monedula (jackdaw) choughc1305 coc1325 kae1340 caddow1440 daw?a1475 jay1484 jackdaw1543 caddesse1565 pilledow1603 Jack1651 sea-crow1897 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Lvij Not all vnlyke vnto Isopes choughe, whom we commonlye call Iacke dawe. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 223 Some cackles like a Henne, or a Iacke Dawe. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. xxix. 285 Choughes and iack dawes: the veriest theeves..especially for silver and gold. 1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 32 And may the Jack-daws still the Steeples hold. 1741 A. Pope et al. Art of Sinking 211 in A. Pope Wks. II. The Paranomasia, or Pun, where a Word, like the tongue of a jackdaw, speaks twice as much by being split. 1769 G. White Let. 2 Jan. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 60 Jackdaws building with us under the ground in rabbit-burrows. 1840 R. H. Barham Jackdaw of Rheims in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 217 In and out, Through the motley rout, That little Jackdaw kept hopping about. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 283 The jackdaw..could not keep silence to save his life, but must talk after his fashion. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. ix. 65 His kicks and crows and splashings had the joy of a gnat's dance, or a jackdaw's gambols in the air. 1978 M. McLaverty Coll. Short Stories (1997) 243 From the broad lip of the chimney he hauled out abandoned jackdaws' nests and flung the bundles of sticks into the air. 2014 H. MacDonald H is for Hawk iv. 34 Jackdaws fuss in the sweet chestnut trees. b. U.S. Any of several grackles of the genus Quiscalus; esp. the boat-tailed grackle, Q. major. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Quiscalus > quiscalus major (boat-tail) jackdaw1729 boat-tail1817 1729 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. i. Pl. 12 Monedula purpurea. The Purple Jack-Daw. 1832 T. Nuttall Man. Ornithol. U.S. & Canada: Land Birds 192 Quiscalus major... This large and Crow-like species, sometimes called the Jackdaw, inhabits the southern parts of the Union only. 1895 C. Bendire Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds 256 The Boat-tailed Grackle [is] also locally known as the ‘Thrush Blackbird’, ‘Boat-tailed Blackbird’, and ‘Jackdaw’. 1916 F. E. L. Beal Common Birds of S.E. U.S. in Relation to Agric. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 755) 3 The boll-worm, or corn-ear worm, is attacked by 12 southeastern birds, of which the boat-tailed grackle, or jackdaw, has the best record. 1951 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 41 510/1 The purple jackdaw (purple grackle). 2016 M. D. O'Brien Fool of N.Y. City ii. 51 ‘The jackdaw? What's a jackdaw?’ ‘The bird on a string in the self-portrait I painted..’. ‘Oh, right. We call them grackles, kind of a black-bird.’ 3. figurative and in allusive use. a. With allusion to the fable of the jackdaw in peacock's feathers: a conceited or haughty pretender or charlatan, a pretentious impostor; a plagiarist. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1699 Short Acct. Dr. Bentley's Humanity & Justice 31 He hates those Jack-daws, who, having borrowed their Feathers, strut like Peacocks. 1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. xlix. 34 Jack-daw poets with their stolen feathers. 1761 A. Murphy Examiner 14 Declar'd a plagiary, proclaim'd aloud A mere jack-daw in furtive colours proud. 1828 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 8 Oct. As simple Thomas P. Moore, he is the veriest Jackdaw that ever strutted in borrowed feathers. 1908 Catholic Educ. Assoc. Bull. Nov. 420 All empty pretence of being literary without a clear idea on any subject should be branded in every seminary for what it really is, jackdaw vanity strutting in borrowed peacock plumes. 1960 X. Fielding tr. P. Boulle Noble Profession i. 10 We now possess such standards of judgment that no impostor can possibly delude us, that..we can recognize at a glance any jackdaw in peacock's feathers. b. An acquisitive or eclectic person; an indiscriminate collector or hoarder. Also occasionally: a thief or pilferer. Cf. magpie n. 2b.Cf. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun] mitcher?c1225 nimmera1325 pilferer1350 truffer1485 lurcher1528 picker1549 filcher1557 purloiner1557 prig1567 prigger1567 prigman1567 fingerer1575 piker1590 prag1592 nibbler1598 lurch-man1603 petty larcener1640 budge1673 catch-cloaka1679 prigster1682 sutler1699 marauder1764 snib1823 chicken thief1840 lurker1841 souvenir hunter1862 robberling1865 jackdaw1887 miker1890 frisker1892 bower-bird1926 jagoff1931 magpie1944 slockster- 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxi. 299 In the corners again were sticks, kerries,..portions of an American clock, and various other articles which this human jackdaw had picked up and hidden away here. 1914 C. H. M. Gaskell Friends round Wrekin ii. 24 His last maid was a proper jackdaw, thieved like a Welsh woman, took off in all five gold pieces, his mother's picture on ivory, and his sister's patchwork quilt. 1962 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Aug. in Proud Highway (1997) 346 Hounded 24 hours a day by thieves, beggars,..dolts and human jackdaws of every shape and description. 1978 A. Leslie & P. Chapman Madame Tussaud vii. 84 Curtius must have been a veritable jackdaw who loved buying things, for every corner was jam-packed. 2000 Studio Potter June 15/2 I am a jackdaw, picking up the pretty, shiny things that I see here, wanting to make them my own. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as jackdaw chick, jackdaw call, jackdaw nest, etc. ΚΠ 1826 Glasgow Herald 23 June 4/4 Three jackdaw nests, recently evacuated. 1888 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 135 Nowhere in Britain does greater interest attach to the jackdaw colony than on Iona, where they find shelter in the crannies of the great cathedral tower. 1933 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 231/1 The stoat might have been seen tussling to get a dead jackdaw chick up the cliff face. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 June (Final ed.) d6 Three birders from Penn State University were trundling off after watching all morning and seeing nary a jackdaw feather. 2006 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 10 Feb. Eastern crows that breed in Maine..do not react to the jackdaw calls. C2. With the sense ‘reminiscent of the sound made by jackdaws, esp. in being raucous or incessant; loquacious, prattling, garrulous’. Cf. sense 1. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1834 S. E. Brydges Autobiogr. II. xviii. 250 Unjust words will neither still nor change his nature: no; nor disturb him long, however clamorously and exultingly the numerous malignants repeat the cry with a jackdaw chatter. 1920 Argosy 1 May 423/1 An ode to love, in a jackdaw voice, warbled Baptiste. 1931 Polit. Sci. Q. 46 122 Sometimes these human mastiffs are a welcome change from chattering jackdaw theorists and suave, feline politicians. 2010 Observer (Nexis) 25 July (Review section) 32 Spur of the Moment puts on stage the jackdaw chatter, the fluffy vulnerability and the vulture behaviour of pre-teen chicks..who, avid for experience, heartlessly hoover up the lives around them. C3. With the sense ‘reminiscent of or characterized by the acquisitiveness, curiosity, etc., traditionally associated with jackdaws; varied, eclectic’. Cf. sense 3b, magpie adj. 2. ΚΠ 1846 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 314 The jackdaw taste for hoarding was not among his [sc. Francis Bacon's] weaknesses. 1906 A. Hayden Chats on Old Prints i. 43 Another order of collector is the jackdaw collector, who must gather unto himself snippets of everything. 1914 H. G. Wells Wife Isaac Harman ix. 315 Sir Isaac's jackdaw acquisitiveness had also overcrowded the corner beyond the fireplace with a very fine and genuine Queen Anne cabinet. 1927 M. A. Buxton Kenya Days vi. 124 Pebbles, lions' claws, mysterious powders, a nail or two, a knife, a little twist of gunpowder—a jackdaw collection that only our most sophisticated boy..would touch. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 613/4 A certain jackdaw tendency is evident in the shape of an unrelated assembly of exhibition and booksellers' catalogues. 2016 P. Williams Bach ii. viii. 579 Bach's fugue-themes alone illustrate his jackdaw mind as clearly as anything in the big ensemble works. Derivatives ˈjackdaw-like adj. ΚΠ 1831 Lady Morgan in Metropolitan June 133 There was something in the party so ravenish and jackdaw-like, that I fancied myself in the Propaganda, or among the protestant brotherhood of Sourcraut Hall. 1890 Athenæum 19 Apr. 498/2 In the Bodleian Library, where they now rest, thanks to the jackdaw-like propensities of Mr. Secretary Pepys. 1963 J. Rössel & K. Dutfield tr. N. Palmgren in J. Rössel & K. Dutfield tr. N. Palmgren et al. Sung Sherds 254 Black crows, small, grey jackdaw-like birds and kestrels were among the birds that somewhat livened up the plain. 2009 N. Upson Angel with Two Faces vi. 111 He should keep his jackdaw-like chatter for the play if he wanted to make his way in the Church. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?1520
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