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Word entry · 3 letters

jay

Best crossword clue

"Blue bird"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒeɪ/Part of speech nounSorted ajyStarts with JEnds with Y3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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:

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Blue bird3 letters
02Noisy crested bird3 letters
03Blue-crested bird3 letters

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