The Collaborative International Dictionary
mockingbird \mockingbird\, mocking bird \mocking bird\n. (Zo["o]l.), A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America ( Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is also applied to other members of thee same and related genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, Melanotis caerulescens.
Syn: mocker, Mimus polyglottos .
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of mockingbird English)
Usage examples of "mocking bird".
However, you will always have relays of people from the suburbs to listen to the Mocking Bird of yesterday, and sincerely imagine it is the harbinger of something new and revolutionising.
And she seemed to listen to a mocking bird while he mocked her with his melody of many birds.
LIKE dangling emerald pendants the two humming-birds were making their last rounds of the hibiscus and a mocking bird had started on its evening song, sweeter than a nightingale's, from the summit of a bush of night-scented jasmine.
The night-song of the crickets was almost done and somewhere on the island a mocking bird bubbled its first notes.