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murderbird

noun

Etymology

From murder + bird.

  1. inherited from bridd — “chick, fledgling, chicken”
  2. inherited from bird
  3. compounded as murderbird — “murder + bird”

Definitions

  1. The butcherbird, the shrike.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird.

The neighborhood

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