chiffchaff

noun

chiff·​chaff ˈchif-ˌchaf How to pronounce chiffchaff (audio)
: a small grayish European warbler (Phylloscopus collybita)

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The Financial Times produces some of the best visual storytelling in journalism, and here audio and graphics bring infrasonic elephant rumbles and synthetic chiffchaff calls to life, conveying technical concepts like spectrograms and embedding spaces. Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024 Raskin has made a few-second chirp of a chiffchaff bird. Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023

Word History

Etymology

imitative

First Known Use

1780, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chiffchaff was in 1780

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“Chiffchaff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chiffchaff. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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