jay

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/ˈd͡ʒeɪ/

noun 8name 8

Collocations

ADJ.

beautiful, big, blue, fat, latest, near, nearby, picked

A beautiful blue jay landed on the fence post this morning.

VERB + JAY

according, bewilder, drunken-flighted, see, smoking, state

I saw a blue jay perched on the fence this morning.

JAY + NOUN

'tac, ashcroft, attitude, backyard, crow, feathers, forest, italy

A blue jay landed on our backyard fence this morning looking for sunflower seeds.

PREP.

in, into, on, up, with

A blue jay flew up into the oak tree outside our kitchen window.

Definitions

noun

Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but sm

Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.

They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […]

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

A dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.

Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.

noun

The name of the Latin script letter J/j.

A marijuana cigarette; a joint.

Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.

name

An English surname transferred from the nickname from Old French jai (“jay (bird)”), a nickname for a chatty or showy person.

A male given name transferred from the surname

A placename

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They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […]

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Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.

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Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:

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Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.

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“I started to think about it. He’s coming in on a two-seater experimental plane to pitch me to go on a five-seater experimental sub that he has built down to the ocean floor to see the Titanic,” Jay s

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When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics”

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, jay is marked as archaic, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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