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Slender songbird — a law git (anag)
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wagtail
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The wagtails form the passerine bird genus Motacilla . The forest wagtail belongs to the monotypic genus Dendronanthus which is closely related to Motacilla and sometimes included herein. The common name and genus names are derived from their characteristic ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After admiring the wagtail for a while, I went on until at last I reached the Round Tower. ▪ As wagtails flittered over the swimming pool, Jack Mitchell heard me admire Butch and lectured me sternly. ▪ Five pied wagtails landed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, kind of small bird that has its tail in continuous motion (late 12c. as a surname), earlier wagstart (mid-15c.), from wag (v.) + tail (n.). From 18c. as "a harlot," but this sense seems to be implied much earlier:\n\nIf therefore thou make not thy ...
Usage examples of wagtail.
As soon as the Kangaroo heard the Bush Wagtail, she and Dot hurried away to find him.
Although the Kangaroo was longing to hear the reason why so many Bush creatures had collected round Dot whilst she was away, she was too anxious to carry her to Willy Wagtail before nightfall to wait and enquire what had happened.
Willy Wagtail, with a jerk of his tail which nearly sent him headlong off the rail.
I know where Mr Willie Wagtail lives, and where the flying squirrel plays, and lots of other things, and best of all where the lyre-bird dances.
They danced about a bush, the magpie tantalisingly holding the moth for acceptance and hopping off as the wagtail was about to snatch it.
After this the game was frequently played, but the magpie had invariably to make it worth the while of the wagtail by offering a prize in the shape of some tit-bit.
But she did not say anything, for it was quite clear in her little mind that Blackfellows, kangaroos, and willy wagtails had a very poor opinion of white people.
Dot glanced through the branches, and saw two wagtails, who looked very smart with their black coats and white waistcoats, sitting on two posts of the fence a little way off.
Far back in the snow-time a pair of wagtails used to come several times a day close to the windows, their black markings showing up singularly well against the snow on the ground.
The wagtails appear to be the first of the migrant birds to return, long before the hail of April rattles against the windows and leaps up in the short grass.
Hedgesparrows, coal-tits, wagtails, yellowhammers, robins, bullfinches, half the birdlife of Germany was pecking at her finger through the wooden bars.
When a band of wagtails has compelled a bird of prey to retreat, they make the air resound with their triumphant cries, and after that they separate.
They rose like a flock of wagtails startled into sudden flight and headed for the room where his clothes were.
The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water.
Hedgesparrows, coal-tits, wagtails, yellowhammers, robins, bullfinches, half the birdlife of Germany was pecking at her finger through the wooden bars.