scrub-jay
scrub jay
noun
a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
Origin:
1935–40, Americanism
1935–40, Americanism
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Scrub-jay
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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