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whinchat

[ hwin-chat, win- ]

noun

  1. a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.


whinchat

/ ˈɪˌʃæ /

noun

  1. an Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, having a mottled brown-and-white plumage with pale cream underparts: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whinchat1

First recorded in 1670–80; whin + chat
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whinchat1

C17: from whin 1+ chat 1
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Many bird species have also been observed on the site, including the curlew, wigeon, skylark, warbler, ringed plover, and whinchat.

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The phrase means a cold, or sickly, person and derives from the whinchat bird, known locally as the winnard, which migrates in winter to warmer places.

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There were stonechats and whinchats then as now.

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So I believe would the whinchat, but I have no practical knowledge of either as pets.

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Trade, cotton, were the mud Upon the whinchat’s claws containing seeds Of liberties to be, and carried forth In mid seas of the future to sunny isles, More blest than ours.

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