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Definition: MOCKING BIRD |
MOCKING BIRD1. (Zo["o]l.), a North American singing bird (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imitation | Imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hush little baby, don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird don't sing, I'm gonna rip off his feathers and tear off his wings (Bobby's World; writing credit: Timothy Williams) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
summary of to kill a mocking bird | 53 |
essay on to kill a mocking bird | 19 |
to kill a mocking bird cliff note | 17 |
harper lee to kill a mocking bird | 8 |
to kill a mocking bird theme | 6 |
to kill a mocking bird by harper lee | 6 |
mocking bird hill | 5 |
to kill a mocking bird book report | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MOCKING BIRD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | ushag chraidoil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockingmay irdbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aves, Brassica campestris L. ssp. oleifera. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mockingbird. | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-g-i-i-k-m-n-o-r" | |
-3 letters: bricking, bromidic, dominick, kingbird. | |
-4 letters: birding, broking, combing, cording, corking, crinoid, dirking, docking, dornick, gonidic, kingdom, midiron, mocking, ricking, rocking. | |
-5 letters: bicorn, bicron, biding, biking, bionic, boding, bodkin, boring, bromic, bromid, bromin, coding, coking, coming, congii, coring, dicing, diking, doming, dormin, gnomic, indigo, irking, ironic, micron, midrib, miking, mikron, miring, morbid, nimrod, niobic. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-g-i-i-k-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: mockingbirds. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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