DICKYBIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dickybird mean? 

• DICKYBIRD (noun)
  The noun DICKYBIRD has 1 sense:

1. small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds

  Familiarity information: DICKYBIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICKYBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dickey-bird; dickeybird; dicky-bird; dickybird

Hypernyms ("dickybird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)