twite

American  

[twahyt] / twaɪt /

noun

1. a small finch, Carduelis flavirostris, of northern Europe, having streaked brown plumage and, in the male, a pink breast.

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twite British  

/ twaɪt /

noun

1. a N European finch, Acanthis flavirostris, with a brown streaked plumage

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Etymology

Origin of twite

First recorded in 1555–65; imitative

Example Sentences

Beside these grow grasses including cock's-foot, crested dog's-tail, meadow fescue and sweet vernal-grass and among them all stride birds such as the curlew, lapwing, snipe and twite.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

No man for despite, By worde or by write His felowe to twite, But further in honestie, No good turnes entwite, Nor olde sores recite, But let all goe quite, And louingly to agree.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward

"Munny, my iron's twite told; pease put it down to warm."

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Besides, such nap-taking assaults, spoylings, and firings, haue in our forefathers daies, betweene vs and Fraunce, beene very common; and yet, who is so witlesse, as to twite eyther of both, for the same?

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

No man for despite By worde or by write His felowe to twite, But further in honestie; No good turns entwite Nor old sores recite, But let all goe quite, And lovingly to agree.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac