Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - jay
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(jays) 1. In Europe and Asia, a jay is a brownish-pink bird with blue and black wings. N-COUNT 2. In North America, a jay is a bird with bright blue feathers. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin gaius Date: 14th century 1. a. a predominantly fawn-colored Old World bird (Garrulus glandarius) of the crow family with a black-and-white crest and wings marked with black, white, and blue b. any of various usually crested and largely blue chiefly New World birds that are related to the common Old World ~ and have roving habits and harsh voices — compare blue ~ 2. a. an impertinent chatterer b. dandy 1 c. greenhorn 3. a moderate blue II. noun Date: circa 1889 1. the letter j 2. joint 4 JAY biographical name John 1745-1829 American jurist & statesman; 1st chief justice United States Supreme Court (1789-95) ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a a noisy chattering European bird, Garrulus glandarius, with vivid pinkish-brown, blue, black, and white plumage. b any other bird of the subfamily Garrulinae. 2 a person who chatters impertinently. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL gaius, gaia, perh. f. L praenomen Gaius: cf. jackdaw, robin ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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сойка; сойка (Garrulus); сойка (Garrulus glandarius) – azure jay – blue jay – brown jay – Canada jay – common jay – Florida jay – green jay – magpie jay – picon jay – saxaul desert jay – scrub jay – Siberian jay ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. зоол. ронжа, сойка (Garrulus glandarius) 2. надоедливый болтун; балаболка 3. безвкусно одетая женщина 4. простак; деревенщина 5. ам. щеголь 6. сл. сигарета с марихуаной ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 13c., from O.Fr. gai, from L.L. gaius "a jay," probably echoic and supposedly infl. by L. Gaius, a common proper name. Jaywalker is first attested 1916 in Amer.Eng., from notion of boldness and impudence. Jayhawker is Amer.Eng., 1858, originlly "freebooter, guerrilla." Jay was slang for "fourth-rate, worthless" (1888) cf. a jay town. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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