junco, snowbird
(noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter
fieldfare, snowbird, Turdus pilaris
(noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snowbird (plural snowbirds)
A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
A bird seen primarily in the winter time.
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter.
(slang) A cocaine user.
Source: Wiktionary
Snow"bird, n. (Zoöl.) (a) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, or Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. (b) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco. (c) The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
