budgerigarn.

/ˈbʌdʒərɪˌɡɑː/

Forms: Also betcherrygah, betshiregah, bougirigard, budgeragar, budgereg(h)ar, budgery garr, budgregore.

Etymology: < a Australian Aboriginal language (‘Port Jackson dialect’, Morris Austral English), < budgeri, boodgeri good + gar cockatoo.

A small Australian parrot, the grass or zebra parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, a popular cage-bird in Britain and elsewhere. Cf. budgie n.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > genus Melopsittacus (budgerigar)

lovebird1837

grass parakeet1840

budgerigar1847

shell parrot1890

budgie1936

1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 297 The Betshiregah (Melopsittacus undulatus, Gould) were very numerous.

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. xii. 139 A most brilliant little parrot..about the size of a bullfinch,..called the budgery garr.

1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta I. ii. 48 Young paroquets, the green leeks, and the lovely speckled budgregores.

1857 F. J. A. Hort in A. F. Hort Life & Lett. (1896) I. 388 A small green creature like a miniature cockatoo, called a Budgeragar.

1889 Times 16 Feb. 4/3 Crystal Palace Cagebird Show 1889... Two Australian budgerigars.

1922 E. V. Lucas Genevra's Money xix. 132 Little foreign birds for the most part, avadavats, Java sparrows, budgerigars.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 118 Budgerigars came in thousands, wheeling in aerial manœuvres of unbelievable intricacy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	budgerigar
释义	budgerigarn. /ˈbʌdʒərɪˌɡɑː/ Forms: Also betcherrygah, betshiregah, bougirigard, budgeragar, budgereg(h)ar, budgery garr, budgregore. Etymology: < a Australian Aboriginal language (‘Port Jackson dialect’, Morris Austral English), < budgeri, boodgeri good + gar cockatoo. A small Australian parrot, the grass or zebra parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, a popular cage-bird in Britain and elsewhere. Cf. budgie n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > genus Melopsittacus (budgerigar) lovebird1837 grass parakeet1840 budgerigar1847 shell parrot1890 budgie1936 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 297 The Betshiregah (Melopsittacus undulatus, Gould) were very numerous. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. xii. 139 A most brilliant little parrot..about the size of a bullfinch,..called the budgery garr. 1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta I. ii. 48 Young paroquets, the green leeks, and the lovely speckled budgregores. 1857 F. J. A. Hort in A. F. Hort Life & Lett. (1896) I. 388 A small green creature like a miniature cockatoo, called a Budgeragar. 1889 Times 16 Feb. 4/3 Crystal Palace Cagebird Show 1889... Two Australian budgerigars. 1922 E. V. Lucas Genevra's Money xix. 132 Little foreign birds for the most part, avadavats, Java sparrows, budgerigars. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 118 Budgerigars came in thousands, wheeling in aerial manœuvres of unbelievable intricacy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1847
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