brown thrasher

noun

1. a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brown thrasher¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,—the chewink and the brown thrasher.

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I can suggest no other explanation than that he must have learned it from the brown thrasher.

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“They broke my leg with a stone from a sling shot,” piped Brown Thrasher.

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Not many rods from the vireos' cedar-tree was a brown thrasher's nest in a barberry bush.

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And he couldn't help being a bit disappointed over the way Buddy Brown Thrasher received it.

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