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Meanings of chaffinch in English

Portuguese
tentilhão
Catalan
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Small European finch with a cheerful song.

        tentilhão
        Usage of chaffinch in English
        1
        I was astonished to see him back; so, apparently, was the chaffinch.
        Afoot in England
        2
        This spring a chaffinch built a nest in one of my yew-trees.
        Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
        3
        A chaffinch clung to the bough, and swung to and fro singing.
        Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
        4
        He had, besides canaries, the thrush, chaffinch, linnet, goldfinch and cirl bunting.
        Birds in Town & Village
        5
        The chaffinch was very much in evidence, continually chaunting its unimportant little ditty.
        Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
        6
        How curious is the structure of the nest of the goldfinch or chaffinch!
        The Illustrated London Reading Book
        7
        The chaffinch, I think, is the commonest bird in this part of the country.
        The Pleasures of Ignorance
        8
        A chaffinch robs a car (the last two might not be true).
        The Irish Times
        9
        A solitary male chaffinch keeps flying at our bedroom window and pecking the glass.
        The Irish Times
        10
        The chaffinch gave a light chirp, as if to recall him to his duty.
        The Daughters of Danaus
        11
        A female chaffinch had flown into a window and died.
        The Irish Times
        12
        Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood.
        By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
        13
        A chaffinch came hopping along, picked up a seed, looked around him, and flew away.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        14
        Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away!
        Grimm's Fairy Stories
        15
        While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
        The Poetry Of Robert Browning
        16
        A chaffinch (now called Bill) who comes to my garden for birdseed is extraordinarily tame.
        The Irish Times
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        Portuguese
        tentilhão
        Chaffinch through the time
        Chaffinch across language varieties
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