Jackdaw meaning

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A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).
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Either of two small corvids (Corvus monedula or C. dauricus) of Eurasia and North Africa, having black and gray or black and white plumage.
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A small European crow (Corvus monedula) with a gray nape.
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Any of various birds, as a large-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
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A European bird of the crow family (Coloeus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins.
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Origin of jackdaw

  • Compound of jack and daw The first element, also present in Low German Kajak, (North Saxon) Jöker "jackdaw", may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, or to the name Jack. The second element means "jackdaw" in itself, from Old English dāƿe, and is cognate with German Dohle.

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Jackdaw Sentence Examples

  • "And you, Jackdaw, go and fetch some wood!" said he to another soldier.

  • As the large jackdaw sized bird flew toward the pond I could make out its appearance as a Green Woodpecker.

  • Then soars prospecting and swoops on a young jackdaw, flies with it to a grassy diner top of the cliff.

  • Of birds very few are indigenous; the jackdaw, blue solitary thrush, spectacled warbler, the robin, kestrel and the herring-gull.

  • Jac to Bach (The little jackdaw) promises a healthy future for roots music in Wales.

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