Definitions

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  • noun A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.

Etymologies

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to trill + -er

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    Thriller kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • That day his brookside singer became the Song-sparrow; the brown triller, the

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Peering into the bushes that fringed the gurgling mountain brook, I soon caught sight of the little triller, and found that, so far as I could distinguish them with my field-glass, his markings were just like those of his eastern relative -- the same mottled breast, with the large dusky blotch in the centre.

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • For a while I eyed the tree, and presently caught sight of the little triller, and behold, it was -- a summer warbler!

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • This time, as was usually the case, I heard the little triller before seeing him, and was sure it was

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • The Spanish triller gets twisted when the scientist doesn't want this guy to interfere in this past tense for fear of severally messing up the future.

    Quick Stop Entertainment 2009

  • The American escaped 4-6 6-2 7-5 in a third-round triller before going on to land her maiden major.

    The Roar - Your Sports Opinion 2009

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    We Blog A Lot 2008

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