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chickadee
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chickadee \Chick"a*dee`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse ( Parus atricapillus ), of North America; -- named from its note.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chickadee is a group of birds in the Paridae family Chickadee may also refer to: USS Chickadee (AM-59) , a minesweeper in the United States Navy Chickadee (magazine) , a Canadian children's magazine Chickadee Lake , a lake in Idaho, United States My Little ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lovely chickadee flew down and perched on her ankle. ▪ After half an hour, however, I am convinced that these chickadees are unaccompanied by any other birds. ▪ As I leave the cabin clearing, I soon meet up with a troupe of ...
Usage examples of chickadee.
Few succeeded, for as they fluttered past the Chickadee, they fell prey instead to its darting beak.
Only the smallest, like that Chickadee at home, could get into the air without their jet engines and fuel tanks, and even they needed help when they were carrying passengers or freight.
The Chickadee was staring into the sky, cocking its black-capped head toward the house, peering toward the nearest tree, and spinning with amazing lightness to seize a robin that only wanted to find a worm for its own breakfast.
He stood behind his son and watched the Chickadee, a foot away, separated only by the glass of the window, twitching its head back and forth, first one eye trained on the boy, then the other.
As he did so, the Chickadee stepped back itself, as if it could have heard and understood his words.
He would have thought the Chickadee one of the latter, except that there was no broken tether cord around its neck.
Andy, and as if noticing his disapproval, the Chickadee spread its wings and hopped into the air, flapping, gliding to another rooftop down the block.
But right now he was staring yearningly at the window, clearly wishing that the Chickadee would come down off the roof for him to watch.
He did not suggest that anyone was letting the Chickadee out deliberately, for that seemed unlikely.
Instead, she stared at the Chickadee on the roof, and her mouth set in a rigid line.
The Chickadee moved too, cocking its head to watch the little drama below it.
Its course took it over the roof of the house, and as soon as it was within reach, the Chickadee lunged and caught it by one wing.
The Chickadee cried out once more and leaped, more clumsily than usual, into the air, leaving its victim behind.
The Chickadee had returned just as the retrieval crew had been about to leave.
Conal was anxious for some reason, far more anxious than a dead Chickadee would seem to warrant.