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viv1948 | 00:52 Wed 21st Jun 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why are birds called dickybirds?
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Dickybirds are invariably small ones...one would never call a swan or vulture a dickybird! The 'dicky' part is just a nursery addition to create that idea of smallness in children's minds. It might just as easily have been an 'ickybird' or a 'tickybird' or whatever.
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