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Meanings of chickadee in anglès

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A small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the northern hemisphere.

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Examples for "tit"
Examples for "tit"
1
Check and balance; tit for tat; give and take; loss and profit.
Dayworld
2
But pockets of violence remain and tit-for-tat killings on both sides continued.
Reuters
3
This time, though, there is no obvious way to end the tit-for-tat.
Reuters
4
A year later she's back and I slice off the other tit.
The Godfather
5
In blackthorn the long-tailed tit builds the domed nest every one admires.
Nature Near London
1
Avram listens to Ora and a titmouse chirps joyously in the thicket.
To the end of the land
2
Sometimes, hanging with head downward, the bird suggests a yellow titmouse.
Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
3
These include the northern cardinal, American robin, Eastern bluebird, tufted titmouse and red-bellied woodpecker.
Reuters
4
It often hangs lice a titmouse, with its back downwards.
The Natural History of Selborne
5
It often hangs like a titmouse, with its back downwards.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Usage of chickadee in anglès
1
Just in front a chickadee hung and twittered among the birch twigs.
Ways of Wood Folk
2
Surely the chickadee is one of the dearest little fellows that fly.
Some Winter Days in Iowa
3
At break of day we heard the chirrup of the chickadee, the sparrow.
Children of the Market Place
4
No chickadee concerts in the morning, no crow music at noon.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
5
No, indeed, no robin or chickadee could build such nests as the swallow.
Stories of Birds
6
If it had wings, it would have been a goldfinch or a chickadee.
The new yorker
7
A young chickadee flew toward her, pausing briefly on low branches.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
8
But the chickadee wasn't at all interested in her, she realized.
Bake sale murder
9
A chickadee, upside down in bright-eyed contemplation, uttered two flute-notes.
The Silent Places
10
Phyllis looked from her own thick red leggings to the chickadee's light blue legs.
Stories of Birds
11
It may look like a chickadee, but it has the bloodlust of an eagle.
Wired
12
The clockwork chickadee was not as pretty as the nightingale.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
13
Not a crow, nor a jay, nor a chickadee had heart enough to cheep.
Roof and Meadow
14
These four are the white-breasted nuthatch, tufted titmouse, downy woodpecker, and the merry little chickadee.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual / Issued for the ...
15
A quick whirring of wings and the chickadee was ten yards farther on its way.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
16
Elizabeth cupped her gloved hand around a frozen chickadee.
The Demon Lover
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