Meanings
nounlettuce-bird (plural lettuce-birds)
plural lettuce-birds · alternative lettuce bird
- USdialectalA goldfinch.
‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112
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