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noun
any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird), of North America.
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Catbird
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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catbird
1731, common name for the North American thrush (Dumetella Carolinensis), so called from its warning cry, which resembles that of a cat. Catbird seat is a 19c. Dixieism, popularized by Brooklyn Dodgers baseball announcer Red Barber and by author James Thurber (1942).
EXPAND" 'Sitting in the catbird seat' meant sitting pretty, like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him." [Thurber, "Stories from New Yorker"]
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