The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chiff-chaff
Chiff-chaff \Chiff"-chaff\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of European warbler ( Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps. ||
Usage examples of "chiff-chaff".
I was about to say that “Blackman’s Warbler” was the local name for the Chiff-chaff in our part of Somerset, when the Authority spoke again.
Reed, bush, swamp and chiff-chaff are all varieties of the family Sylviidae and are better known as .
As the silence drew out, the warbler quieted but now other birds, made bold by the quiet, began to call and sing: a thin zee-zee-zee among the treetops and the monotonous chiff-chaff song in the scrub.