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blue tit
noun
- an Old World titmouse, Parus caeruleus, having a cobalt-blue crown.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue tit1
First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences
Brown thrushes, dark blackbird, blue tit, and wagtail gave a little colour to the angle of the meadow.
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The commonest of all is the little blue-tit, or “tom-tit,” as it is so often called.
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Creeper and nuthatch, and starling and gem-like blue tit, found holes enough in the old trunks to breed in.
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More fearless still is a blue-tit that has her dwelling in a crevice in the wall some fifty yards further on.
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The saw-like note of the great titmouse is said to foretell rain; that of the blue-tit, cold.
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