tody

American  

[toh-dee] / ˈtoʊ di /

noun

todies plural

1. any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.

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tody British  

/ ˈtəʊdɪ /

noun

1. any small bird of the family Todidae of the Caribbean, having a red-and-green plumage and long straight bill: order Coraciiformes (kingfishers, etc)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• todies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tody

Apparently < French todier, based on New Latin Todus a genus, Latin: a kind of small bird

Example Sentences

A brilliant green bird called the Puerto Rican tody, which eats bugs almost exclusively, diminished by 90 percent.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2018

They don't care for the children; they win cus tody of the children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps the rousing of the odd, fantastic feeling had been favoured by the slumber beginning to encroach on tody and brain.

From A Rough Shaking by MacDonald, George

There was also a tiny soft-tailed woodpecker, no larger than a kinglet; a queer humming-bird with a slightly flexible bill; and many species of ant-thrush, tanager, manakin, and tody.

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore

Brakfast, Dinar and 0 1 9         Super and half mug of tody 0 2 6 9th.

From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome