chiffchaff

Meaning

Noun

• A small, common warbler, Phylloscopus collybita, with yellowish-green plumage that breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
• Any of several other species of the same genus.
• The song of the chiffchaff.

Origin

• Echoic of the repetitive "chiff-chaff" song of the European
• species, Phylloscopus collybita.