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FINCH
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English : unexplained.
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English : spelling of Fincham.
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English : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, apparently so called from Old English pinc(a) ‘(chaf)finch’ + bæc ‘back’, ‘ridge’.
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English : variant of Finch.German (Rhineland) : variant of Fink.
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English : (northern): variant of Thwaites, for example from Twit in Lincolnshire.English : nickname from the twite, a moorland finch, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold or kept them as songbirds.
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English : habitational name (reflecting the pronunciation of the place name) for someone from Finchale in Durham, named from Old English finc ‘finch’ + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name or topographic name from Middle English fenkel ‘fennel’. Compare Fennell.Respelling of German Finkel.
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English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : nickname for a chirpy person, from Middle English pinch, pink ‘(chaf)finch’. Compare Finch.English (mainly Devon) : possibly a metonymic occupational name from Middle English pinche ‘pleated fabric’, from Middle English pinche(n) ‘to pinch (pastry)’, ‘to pleat (fabric)’, ‘to crimp (hair, etc.)’, also ‘to cavil’, ‘to be niggardly’.
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English : habitational name from a place in Norfolk, so called from Old English finc ‘finch’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, ‘river meadow’.
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English and French
English and French : from Old French pinson ‘finch’, perhaps a nickname applied to a bright and cheerful person.English and French : metonymic occupational name for someone who made pincers or forceps or who used them in their work, from Old French pinson ‘pincers’ (a derivative of pincier ‘to pinch’).
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English : nickname from Middle English finch ‘finch’ (Old English finc). In the Middle Ages this bird had a reputation for stupidity. It may perhaps also in part represent a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught finches and sold them as songsters or for the cooking pot. The surname is found in all parts of Britain but is most common in Lancashire. See also Fink.
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English : habitational name from a place in Hampshire named Finkley, from Old English finc ‘finch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
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Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco.
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Same as Finchbacked.
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A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.
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Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.
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Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.
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An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.
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A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.
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Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
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A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
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Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.
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The brambling finch.
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One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
v. t.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
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A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
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An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.