mouissaon
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mouissaon m (plural mouissaons)
- (Guernsey) bird
- 1883, Denys Corbet, ‘Le R'nouvé’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
- Tous les mouissons sous l's-ormes du ménâge / Li font la fête auve un chànt sans pareil […] .
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- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 514:
- Un mouisson à la main vaut mûx que daeux qui volent.
- A bird in the hand is worth two on the wing.