An obsolete British name for the stonechat (Saxicola rubicola), a small bird that makes a distinctive sharp clicking call reminiscent of two stones being struck together.
An obsolete British name for the stonechat (Saxicola rubicola), a small bird that makes a distinctive sharp clicking call reminiscent of two stones being struck together. The name is descriptively precise and typical of older English dialect bird naming. It has been entirely replaced by the modern standard name.
You could hear the stoneclink ticking from the gorse bushes as we walked along the cliff path.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, obsolete) stonechat.