"drinking bird" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drinking birds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drinking bird (plural drinking birds)
  1. A toy heat engine that mimics the motions of a bird drinking from a water source. Wikipedia link: drinking bird Categories (topical): Toys Translations (toy): juoppolintu (Finnish), limulintu (Finnish), Trinkvogel [masculine] (German), Wippvogel [masculine] (German)

Inflected forms

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