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Meanings of tomtit in English

Spanish
hawker tomtit
Wikidata

1928 Trainer aircraft series by Hawker.

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hawker tomtit
Portuguese
chapim-azul
Catalan
mallerenga blava

Widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head.

chapim-azul
Usage of tomtit in English
1
There was no cover for a tomtit in those bald green places.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
2
The iora is a feathered exquisite, about the size of a tomtit.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
3
And inside of me I was singing as small as a tomtit.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
4
Now I find thee bright and smiling, and chipper as a tomtit.
Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
5
Next year, Philomène, if the tomtit comes back, let me know.
International Short Stories: French
6
But the tomtit never came again-andneither did the letter from the bishop!
International Short Stories: French
7
The fox went a little farther, and met a tomtit.
Wood Magic: A Fable
8
There is a blackbird in particular, and a blue tomtit, that are both extremely saucy!
A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois') — Volume 2
9
And was he beside them only a tomtit?
The Sheriff's Son
10
Scarce a sparrow, red-breast, tomtit, or wren, can 'scape the guns and snares of those indefatigable fowlers.
Travels through France and Italy
11
She wus a poorty squaw, mighty poorty, an' I wus as happy as a tomtit on a sugar-trough.
Alice of Old Vincennes
12
Power's eyes glanced through one of the window-casements: from a hole without he saw the head of a tomtit protruding.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
13
I do hate to see a tall, stout fellow so sniveling like a girl of fourteen over a dead tomtit.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
14
The tomtit is like its English namesake in shape, but smaller, and with a glossy black head and bright yellow breast.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
15
Malaga, whose 'fancy' is a little tomtit of a fiddler of eighteen, cannot in conscience make such a boy marry the girl.
The Muse of the Department
16
Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
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Portuguese
chapim-azul
Tomtit through the time