Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several insectivorous songbirds of the genus Sayornis of the Americas, noted for the flicking motion of the tail.
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- noun Any of several
birds of thegenus Sayornis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He hovered like a humming-bird close before a nest, looking into it and uttering a loud strange cry, like the last note of "phoebe" repeated rapidly, as "be-be-be."
Little Brothers of the Air Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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"phoebe," which he delivered from the peak of the barn (never from the dead tree) with an emphasis that proclaimed to all whom it might concern that he had something on his mind.
Little Brothers of the Air Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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On a related note, I replaced a treble hook with a single hook on a phoebe spoon recently to match some regulations.
Trout Spinner Primer 2009
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He tells of the phoebe-bird that betrays her nest on the porch by trying to hide it with moss in similar fashion to the way all phoebe-birds hide their nests when they are built among rocks.
The Other Animals 2010
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On a related note, I replaced a treble hook with a single hook on a phoebe spoon recently to match some regulations.
Trout Spinner Primer 2009
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Bob McDonald ran as a moderate who claimed not to be a rightwing nut, but I knew he was a homo-phoebe all along.
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A gold phoebe, and what everyone else has said ...
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Spilling out from above that she's interviewed the household, the three anything the ancestry's way so he helps to be two landfills at often, electroplating his respective blanket while he first needs to obey phoebe. baby bjorn diaper bag.
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A gold phoebe, and what everyone else has said ...
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IT ran for ten seasons with jokes like “smelly cat” and the oh so poignant conversation between chandler and phoebe talking about “Goldman” and “silverman”.
NBC Cancels Christian Slater Drama “My Own Worst Enemy” 2008
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"Young phoebes sometimes become entangled in the horsehairs which are used in the lining of their nest."
"He tells of the phoebe-bird that betrays her nest on the porch by trying to hide it with moss in a similar fashion in the way all phoebe-birds hide their nests when they are built among rocks."
August 2, 2015