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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

/ ˈwɪnˌtʃæt /

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of whinchat1

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

Origin of whinchat1

C17: from whin 1+ chat 1
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Example Sentences

The Whinchat may be distinguished at a considerable distance by the white streak over the eye.

The same is true of the Whinchat, and one would scarcely expect to find this bird attacking Buntings as it sometimes does.

The redstart and nightingale are most subject to this; it sometimes also happens to the fauvette, and also to the whinchat.

It is not so tender as the whinchat, some few of them occasionally stopping in this country all the winter.

Incidentally we may remark that the Whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.

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