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Birdlet

Bird′let

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Noun.
A little bird; a nestling.

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birdlet

birdlet

English

Noun

birdlet (plural birdlets)

  1. A small bird.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
      And if the Ichneumon, which is his mortall enemie approach to fight with him, the little birdlet, lest he might surprise him whilst he sleepeth, with his singing, and pecking him with his bill, awakens him, and gives him warning of the danger he is in.

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