Definitions for chiffchaff

chiffchaff chiff·chaff

Spelling: [chif-chaf, -chahf]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪfˌtʃæf, -ˌtʃɑf/

Chiffchaff is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 32 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in chiffchaff (accffffhhi).

Definitions for chiffchaff

noun

  1. a common, greenish Old World warbler, Phylloscopus collybita.

Origin of chiffchaff

First recorded in 1770-80; gradational compound; imitative

Examples for chiffchaff

The chiffchaff uttered his clear yet rather sad notes on April 26.

The first swallow they looked for, and never missed; but they neither heard nor saw the chiffchaff.

This name, however, is probably equally applicable to the chiffchaff.

In the north of England, as it is in the south, the chiffchaff is perhaps the most constant pioneer of the spring migrants.

Only a very few days since—it does not seem a week—there was a chiffchaff calling in a copse as merrily as in the spring.

Lastly, we have the chiffchaff, certainly the rarest and most local of all.

chiffchaff and willow-wren came as usual, but they did not arrive in a crowd at once.

Word Value for chiffchaff
Scrable

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