flycatcher

English

Etymology

From fly +‎ catcher.

Pronunciation

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Noun

flycatcher (plural flycatchers)

1. Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
2. Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.
3. A device for catching flies.
   • 1883 January 20, The Williamstown Advertiser, Victoria, page 2, column 1:

     Stewart appeared anxious to get all information in connection with a fly-catcher on the counter.

   • 1889 January 26, The Queensland Figaro and Punch, Brisbane, page 3, column 3:

     He has a patent revolving fly-catcher on the counter.

   • 1904 March 4, The Australian Christian Commonwealth, SA, page 7, column 2:

     The flies worried me when I was writing the other day. I put up a vampire flycatcher on my desk. One stuck to it, and I watched it struggling.

   • 1940 August 13, The Southern Mail, Bowral, NSW, page 4, column 5:

     A flycatcher, one of the sticky sort you pull out of a cylinder, will keep safes and cupboards free from ants.

Derived terms

• Acadian flycatcher
• ash-throated flycatcher
• Asian brown flycatcher
• Atlas flycatcher
• Atlas pied flycatcher
• black-billed flycatcher
• black-capped flycatcher
• black-tailed flycatcher
• blue-and-white flycatcher
• blue flycatcher
• blue-throated flycatcher
• boat-billed flycatcher
• broad-billed flycatcher
• brown-breasted flycatcher
• brown-crested flycatcher
• canary-flycatcher
• collared flycatcher
• dark-sided flycatcher
• dull blue flycatcher
• dusky-capped flycatcher
• European pied flycatcher
• European spotted flycatcher
• fairy flycatcher
• ferruginous flycatcher
• flycatcher-shrike
• fork-tailed flycatcher
• green-backed flycatcher
• grey-capped flycatcher
• grey-streaked flycatcher
• Hainan blue flycatcher
• indigo flycatcher
• Kashmir flycatcher
• leaden flycatcher
• least flycatcher
• lemon-bellied flycatcher
• little pied flycatcher
• mangrove blue flycatcher
• mariqua flycatcher
• monarch flycatcher
• mugimaki flycatcher
• narcissus flycatcher
• New World flycatcher
• Nilgiri flycatcher
• Old World flycatcher
• olive-sided flycatcher
• pale blue flycatcher
• paperbark flycatcher
• paradise flycatcher
• piratic flycatcher
• puffback flycatcher
• red-breasted flycatcher
• restless flycatcher
• royal flycatcher
• ruddy-tailed flycatcher
• rufous-gorgeted flycatcher
• rusty-tailed flycatcher
• satin flycatcher
• scissor-tailed flycatcher
• semi-collared flycatcher
• shining flycatcher
• shrike-flycatcher
• silky-flycatcher
• snowy-browed flycatcher
• social flycatcher
• spotted flycatcher
• streaked flycatcher
• taiga flycatcher
• tit-flycatcher
• tody-flycatcher
• Traill's flycatcher
• true flycatcher
• tufted flycatcher
• tyrant flycatcher
• ultramarine flycatcher
• verditer flycatcher
• vermilion flycatcher
• white-tailed blue flycatcher
• yellow-bellied flycatcher
• yellow flycatcher
• yellowish flycatcher
• yellow-olive flycatcher
• yellow-rumped flycatcher

Translations

bird

• Asturian: mosqueru (ast)
• Belarusian: валасянка f (valasjanka)
• Catalan: papamosques m, mastegatatxes (ca) m
• Czech: lejsek (cs)
• Dutch: vliegenvanger (nl) m
• Finnish: sieppo (fi) (Muscicapidae); tyranni (fi) (Tyrannidae)
• French: gobemouche (fr)
• German: Fliegenschnäpper (de) m
• Italian: muscicapide (it) m
• Luxembourgish: Méckefänkert m
• Romanian: muscar (ro) m
• Russian: мухоловка (ru) (muxolovka), мухое́д m (muxojéd)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: livkkár

  Northern Sami: livkkár

• Spanish: papamoscas (es) m
• Swedish: flugsnappare (sv) c
• Welsh: gwybedog m

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Translations to be checked

• Estonian: kärbsenäpp, kärbsepüünis
• Ido: mushokaptero (io)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mêşgir (ku)

• Swahili: shore (sw)