stonechatter

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noun

stonechat

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounstonechatter (plural stonechatters)

plural stonechatters

  1. archaicstonechat
    1 more example

    One fine day in harvist (it was a holiday) Tom was takin' a ramble by himsilf thro' the land, an' wint sauntherin' along the sunny side uv a hidge [...] whin all uv a suddint he h'ard a clackin' sort o' n'ise jist a little way fornint him, in the hidge. "Dear me," said Tom, "but isn't it now raaly surprisin' to hear the stonechatters singin' so late in the saison."

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 373

Origin

From stonechat + -er (“frequentative suffix”).

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