Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The white-winged or velvet scoter, sea-coot, or surf-duck, Œdemia fusca deglandi: so called along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
- noun The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs: so called from the white bands on the wing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
- noun The velvet duck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
chaffinch . - noun The
velvet scoter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new whitewing slur is that Michelle Obama is not allowed to practice law.
Think Progress » Palin Admits To Travelling To Canada For Health Care 2010
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Those stories are fed right to him by his whitewing masters.
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Please take your whitewing talking points and shove them in the room left next to your head inside your rectum.
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I watch some of Scarborough every morning just so I know what the whitewing talking points are.
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Well it was the politics of the whitewing that made the release of these facts necessary.
Think Progress » Republicans Demand Brennan Resign For Calling Out GOP Politicization Of Terrorism 2010
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Stop listening to your whitewing heroes and do some research.
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But the whitewing nutjobs think all those people should be ignored.
Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘I don’t mean any disrespect’ when I accuse the media of ‘treason.’ 2010
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KayInMaine, Vernon Hunter is a black man so of course his death is of little concern to the whitewing media.
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Wait I thought whitewing nutz like Palin and Rush think political correctness is a danger to our country.
Think Progress » Palin attacks Family Guy’s ‘satire’ after excusing Limbaugh’s. 2010
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The whitewing decided it was more important to destroy President Obama than to help the taxpaying voters.
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