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nightingale

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?na?t???e?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, ni?tingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (nightingale; night-raven, literally night-singer), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigal? (nightingale), equivalent to night +? gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (nightingale), Dutch nachtegaal (nightingale), German Low German Nachtigall (nightingale), German Nachtigall (nightingale), Danish nattergal (nightingale), Swedish näktergal (nightingale), Icelandic næturgali (nightingale).

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

  1. A European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, of the family Muscicapidae.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, chapter 5 in the first part of The Last Man
      The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales
Synonyms
  • philomel
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Named after Florence Nightingale.

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

  1. A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

Anagrams

  • alightening

Middle English

Noun

nightingale

  1. Alternative form of nyghtyngale

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thrasher

English

Etymology

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash +? -er.

Noun

thrasher (plural thrashers)

  1. One who thrashes.
  2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
  3. A thresher shark.
  4. (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Ehrharts

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