snowbird

See also: snow-bird and snow bird

English

Etymology

snow +‎ bird

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

snowbird (plural snowbirds)

1. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
2. A bird seen primarily in the winter time.
3. The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
4. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.

   Coordinate terms: sunbird, year-rounder

5. (US military slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.
6. (slang) A cocaine user.

Hyponyms

• (cocaine user): snow bunny

Derived terms

• blue snowbird

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 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

See also

• junco

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