warbler
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɔː(ɹ)blə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)blə(ɹ)
Noun
warbler (plural warblers)
- Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).
- One who warbles.
- a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting
- In lulling strains the feather'd warblers woo.
- 2012, Joe Bonomo, Conversations with Greil Marcus, page 87:
- And it looked like at first she was just another pop warbler, and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is a great record, but nothing threatening, nothing strange.
- a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting
- (UK, slang) A hissy fit.
Derived terms
- bay-breasted warbler
- black and white warbler
- black-capped warbler
- black-throated green warbler
- blue yellow-backed warbler
- bush warbler
- Canadian warbler
- Cape May warbler
- chestnut-sided warbler
- Connecticut warbler
- creeping warbler
- fly-catching warbler
- grey warbler
- ground warbler
- MacGillivray's warbler
- New World warbler
- pine warbler
- prairie warbler
- prothonotary warbler
- wood-warbler
- worm-eating warbler
- yellow-rumped warbler
- yellow warbler
Translations
bird of the Sylviidae family
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bird of the Parulidae family
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