lettuce-bird en · NOUN
Meanings
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(US, dialectal) A goldfinch.
‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lettuce-birds | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| lettuce bird | alternative | lexicographic |