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Webster 1913 Edition

Shilfa

{

Sheel′fa

,

Shil′fa

, }
Noun.
(Zool.)
The chaffinch; – so named from its call note.
[Prov. Eng.]

Definition 2024

shilfa

shilfa

English

Noun

shilfa ‎(plural shilfas)

  1. (Britain, dialect) The chaffinch.
    • 1866, Alexander Smith, Alfred Hagart's Household (page 20)
      And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.

Etymology

From its call.

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