warbler

noun — 4 senses

warbler

noun

UK /ˈwɔːblə/ · US /ˈwɔɹbləɹ/

Etymology From warble + -er.

1

Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).

2

One who warbles.

  • In lulling strains the feather'd warblers woo.a. 1740, Fragment on Hunting, Thomas Tickell:
  • And it looked like at first she was just another pop warbler, and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is a great record, but nothing threatening, nothing strange.2012, Joe Bonomo, Conversations with Greil Marcus, page 87:
3

A device that makes a warbling sound.

  • In electronic telephones, this ringer may be a small electronic warbler rather than a bell.2011, Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, page 598:
4

UK, Slang A hissy fit.

Derived terms
123 termsacrocephalid warbler, African warbler, American warbler, aquatic warbler, Arctic warbler, arctic warbler, Asian desert warbler, Audubon's warbler, Bachman's warbler, Balearic warbler, barred warbler, bay-breasted warbler, black and white warbler, Blackburnian warbler, black-capped warbler, black-throated green warbler, blue yellow-backed warbler, Blyth's reed warbler, booted warbler, brush warbler, bush warbler, Calaveras warbler, Canadian warbler, Cape May warbler, cettid warbler, Cetti's warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, cisticolid warbler, Connecticut warbler, creeping warbler, Cuban warbler, Dartford warbler, dusky warbler, eastern Bonelli's warbler, eastern olivaceous warbler, eastern Orphean warbler, fairy warbler, fan-tailed warbler, fly-catching warbler, garden warbler, golden-cheeked warbler, golden-crowned warbler, Grace's warbler, grasshopper warbler, grass warbler, great reed warbler, greenish warbler, green warbler, grey warbler, ground warbler warbler, hermit warbler, Hume's leaf warbler, icterine warbler, Japanese bush warbler, Kennicott's willow warbler, Kentucky warbler, kirkland warbler, Kirtland's warbler, lanceolated warbler, leaf-warbler, leaf warbler, locustellid warbler, lutescent warbler, MacGillivray's warbler, magnolia warbler, Malagasy warbler, marsh warbler, melodious warbler, Moltoni's warbler, mourning warbler, mouse-warbler, moustached warbler, Nashville warbler, New World warbler, olive warbler, orange-crowned warbler, Orphean warbler, ox warbler, paddyfield warbler, pale-footed bush warbler, Pallas's grasshopper warbler, Pallas's leaf warbler, pileolated warbler, pine warbler, plain leaf warbler, prairie warbler, prothonotary warbler, Radde's warbler, reed warbler, river warbler, rufous warbler, Rüppell's warbler, Sardinian warbler, Savi's warbler, sedge warbler, speckled warbler, spectacled warbler, streaked fantail warbler, streaked scrub warbler, subalpine warbler, superb warbler, Sykes's warbler, sylviid warbler, Tennessee warbler, three-banded warbler, tit-warbler, two-barred warbler, typical bush warbler, warbler-finch, western Bonelli's warbler, western olivaceous warbler, western Orphean warbler, western subalpine warbler, willow warbler, Wilson's warbler, wood warbler, wood-warbler, worm-eating warbler, wren-warbler, yellow-browed warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated warbler, yellow warbler

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