lettuce-bird

English

Alternative forms

• lettuce bird

Noun

lettuce-bird (plural lettuce-birds)

1. (US dialect) A goldfinch.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112:

     ‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’