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Meanings of dickey bird in English

A small bird.

Usage of dickey bird in English
1
Why go gunning for a dickey bird when you can tie up to an eagle?
The Pride of Palomar
2
They come running like dickey birds looking for bugs on a hippo's back.
The stand
3
"Yes," added Bobus, "it all came of you that poor Dickey Bird is suspected and it is all blown up."
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood