snowbird

See also: snow-bird and snow bird

English

Etymology

From snow +‎ bird.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊbɜːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊbɝːd/

• Audio (Australia):

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Noun

snowbird (plural snowbirds)

2. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.

   Hypernyms: junco < migratory bird, migrant < bird < animal < creature

3. A migratory bird seen primarily in the winter time.

   Hypernyms: migratory bird, migrant < bird < animal < creature

   Coordinate term: resident

4. The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).

   Hypernyms: bird < animal < organism, species

6. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.

   Hypernym: person

   Coordinate terms: sunbird, year-rounder

7. (US military slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.

   Hypernyms: enlistee < person

8. (slang) Someone who uses cocaine illicitly.

   Hypernyms: druggie < criminal < person

   Hyponym: snow bunny

Derived terms

• blue snowbird
• snowbirding

Translations

dark-eyed junco

• Catalan: jonc fosc m
• Czech: strnadec zimní m
• Danish: mørkøjet junco m
• Dutch: grijze junco (nl)
• Finnish: tummajunkko (fi)
• French: junco ardoisé (fr) m
• German: Winterammer (de) f, Junko m (dated)
• Hungarian: téli sármánypinty
• Italian: junco occhiscuri m
• Norwegian: vinterjunko

  Nynorsk: vinterjunko

• Polish: junko zwyczajny m
• Spanish: junco pizarroso m, junco ojioscuro m
• Swedish: mörkögd junco c
• Turkish: kara gözlü junko

a person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 候鳥 / 候鸟 (zh) (hòuniǎo)

• French: hivernant (fr) m
• Polish: osoba udająca się na zimę na południe f
• Spanish: veraneante (es) n

See also

• snowcock

References

• Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎^[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 104

Further reading

• Snowbird (person) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia