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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The chaffinch. UK, dialectal

   "And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings."

Example

More examples

"And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings."

Etymology

From its call.

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