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Word: Preen
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late Middle English: apparently a variant of obsolete prune (based on Latin ungere ‘anoint’), in the same sense, associated with Scots and northern English dialect preen ‘pierce, pin’ (because of the ‘pricking’ action of the bird's beak)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
priːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of a bird) tidy and clean its feathers with its beak
Short Definition:(of bird) tidy and clean its feathers with its beak
Examples:- reed buntings preened at the pool's edge
- the pigeon preened her feathers
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