different between warbler vs blackcap

English

Etymology

warble +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??(?)bl?(?)/

Noun

warbler (plural warblers)

1. Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).
2. One who warbles.
   • a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting

     In lulling strains the feather'd warblers woo.

   • 2012, Joe Bonomo, Conversations with Greil Marcus (page 87)

     And it looked like at first she was just another pop warbler, and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is a great record, but nothing threatening, nothing strange.

3. (Britain, slang) A hissy fit.

Derived terms

• bay-breasted warbler
• black and white warbler
• black-capped warbler
• black-throated green warbler
• blue yellow-backed warbler
• bush warbler
• Canadian warbler
• Cape May warbler
• chestnut-sided warbler
• Connecticut warbler
• creeping warbler
• fly-catching warbler
• ground warbler
• MacGillivray's warbler
• New World warbler
• pine warbler
• prairie warbler
• prothonotary warbler
• wood-warbler
• worm-eating warbler
• yellow-rumped warbler
• yellow warbler

Translations

Anagrams

• brawler

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

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