different between titmouse vs blackcap

English

Etymology

From Middle English titmose, compound of tit (“small bird”) and mose, from Old English m?se (“titmouse”), from Proto-Germanic *mais? (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz (“tiny, puny”) (compare Norwegian meis (“skinny weakling”)). Spelling as well as the plural form in imitation of the otherwise unrelated mouse.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?tma?s/

Noun

titmouse (plural titmouses or titmice)

1. Any small passerine bird of the family Paridae, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.

Synonyms

• tit

Translations

See also

• chickadee
• Pseudopodoces
• Baeolophus
• Melanochlora
• Sylviparus

References

• “titmouse, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2019

Anagrams

• time outs, time-outs, timeouts, times out, tsumoite

English

Etymology

From black +? cap.

Noun

blackcap (plural blackcaps)

1. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown. [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete, Britain, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus). [17th–19th c.]
   • 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, II.4:

     Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [transl. capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.

3. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. [from 18th c.]
4. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis). [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• bush blackcap (Lioptilus nigricapillus)
• Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
• Wilson's blackcap (Wilsonia pusilla)

Translations

Anagrams

• clap back, clapback