bobolink

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
8

Definition of bobolink

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An American migratory songbird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), resembling a blackbird with the bill of a finch.
    “Lethe in my flower / Of which they who drink / In the fadeless orchards / Hear the bobolink.”
    “The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.”

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Etymology

Imitative of its song. Compare Bob Lincoln.

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