shilfa

English

Etymology

From its call.

Noun

shilfa (plural shilfas)

  1. (UK, 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.
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