Definitions
crested largely blue bird
Word origin
From Middle English jay, from Old French jai ("jay"; Modern French geai), either from Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or from Old French gai (“gay, merry”), so named due to its plumage, from Old Frankish *gāhi (“quick, impetuous”), from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”), cognate with Dutch gaai (“jay”). More at gay.
Used in a sentence
“They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […]”
“Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.”
“Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Blue bird”3 letters
02“Noisy crested bird”3 letters
03“Blue-crested bird”3 letters
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