See shilfa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "From its call.", "forms": [ { "form": "shilfas", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "shilfa (plural shilfas)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English countable nouns", "English dialectal terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "en:True finches" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1866, Alexander Smith, Alfred Hagart's Household, page 20:", "text": "And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The chaffinch." ], "links": [ [ "chaffinch", "chaffinch" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, dialect) The chaffinch." ], "tags": [ "UK", "dialectal" ] } ], "word": "shilfa" }
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