pickcheese

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pick +‎ cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.

Noun[edit]

pickcheese (plural pickcheeses)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The blue tit.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The fruit of the mallow.

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