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blue jay
noun
- a common, crested jay, Cyanocitta cristata, of eastern North America, having a bright blue back and a gray breast.
blue jay
noun
- a common North American jay, Cyanocitta cristata , having bright blue plumage with greyish-white underparts
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue jay1
An Americanism dating back to 1700–10
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Example Sentences
The blue-jay took his bath in an original way as he did everything else.
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Another mischievous deity of the Chinooks and other western peoples is Blue Jay.
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All was still, except for the chatter of a blue-jay, and after a moment or so his attention again relaxed.
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Ralph, you remind me of the blue-jay in the cage upon the stoep which knows but one word and repeats it all day long.
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Then, his eye roving to the loftier shelves, he spied remotely above him a stuffed blue jay mounted on a varnished branch of oak.
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