chaffinch
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 25
- Words With Friends
- 26
- Letters
- 9
/ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/
Definition of chaffinch
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.
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Etymology
From Middle English chaffynch, chaffynche, caffynche, equivalent to chaff + finch. However, more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cæfed (“ornamented”) and cæfing (“hair-ornament”), thus meaning "ornamented finch, colourful finch".
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