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dunnock (DUHN-uhk) - n., a small Eurasian passerine bird (Prunella modularis), also called hedge sparrow or hedge warbler.
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About the size of a sparrow, only even more drab-colored and with a thrust-like beak. In Middle English it was spelled donek/dunok/dunoke, from dun, brownish grey + -ock, diminutive suffix -- so little grey-brown one. Sounds about right.
---L.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
About the size of a sparrow, only even more drab-colored and with a thrust-like beak. In Middle English it was spelled donek/dunok/dunoke, from dun, brownish grey + -ock, diminutive suffix -- so little grey-brown one. Sounds about right.
---L.
