titmouse
1 synonym for titmouse, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A small songbird, mostly of the genus Baeolophus, found in woodland across the Northern Hemisphere and Africa.
Etymology
Came from Middle English titmose, a compound of tit, meaning “small bird”, and mose, from Old English māse, meaning “titmouse”, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz, meaning “tiny, puny” (compare Norwegian meis,...
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