DICKEY-BIRD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds

Synonyms:

dickey-bird; dickeybird; dicky-bird; dickybird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dickey-bird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)