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Chaffinch

//ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.
  2. 2
    small European finch with a cheerful song wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English chaffynch, chaffynche, caffynche, equivalent to chaff + finch. However, more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cæfed (“ornamented”) and cæfing (“hair-ornament”), thus meaning "ornamented finch, colourful finch".

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