pipit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small, slender, usually brown and streaked ground-feeding songbird, chiefly of the genus Anthus, found in open country

   A meadow pipit rose from the grass and delivered its thin song during a short display flight.

Recorded in English in the eighteenth century and probably imitative of the bird's repeated call; compare Malay pipit, a name for small birds that may share the same sound-symbolic origin.

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