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mock-bird
ˈmock-bird [f. mock n.1 + bird n.] The American mocking-bird, Mimus polyglottus.1649 Perf. Descr. Virginia (1837) 15 One Bird we call the Mock-bird; for he will imitate all other Birds Notes. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 51 ¶4 The Indian Fowl, called the Mock-Bird, who has no Note of his own. 1774 Goldsm....
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mocking-bird
ˈmocking-bird [f. mocking ppl. a. Cf. mock-bird.] 1. An American passerine song-bird of the genus Mimus, esp. Mimus polyglottus, characterized by its habit of mimicking the notes of other birds.1676 T. Glover in Phil. Trans. XI. 631 There are also divers kinds of small Birds, whereof the Mocking-bir...
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The Witch of Atlas
The king would place an ape on his throne and dress him up in his vestments while a "mock-bird" repeated the "chatterings of the monkey".
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echoer
echoer (ˈɛkəʊə(r)) [f. as prec. + -er.] One who echoes or repeats.1823 Monthly Review CI. 353 We shall be but..the echoers of a mock-bird's song. 1837 Fraser's Mag. XV. 169 The borrower, the echoer, the copier, cannot do it.
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polyglot
polyglot, a. and n. (ˈpɒlɪglɒt) Also -glott. [ad. Gr. πολύγλωττ-ος many-tongued, speaking many languages, f. πολυ-, poly- + γλῶττα tongue. So F. polyglotte (1639 in Hatz.-Darm.).] A. adj. 1. Of a person: That speaks or writes many or several languages.1656 Blount Glossogr., Polyglot, that speaks man...
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