different between warbler vs finch

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 Middle English fynche, from Old English fin?, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek ??????? (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian ?????? (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit ?????? (phi?gaka, “drongo, shrike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

finch (plural finches)

1. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• brambling
• canary
• crossbill (Loxia spp.)
• redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
• serin
• siskin

Verb

finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

References

• finch at OneLook Dictionary Search
• finch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Noun

finch

1. Alternative form of fynche