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noun any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
originFrom Middle English nutthache, notehache, nuthake, nuttehake, nothak, equivalent to nut + hatch (akin to hack). Compare English nutcracker. Compare typologically Polish kowalik (akin to kować).
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