coalmouse

English
A coalmouse

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Etymology

From Middle English colmose, collemase, from Old English colmāse (“coalmouse”), from Proto-Germanic *kulamaisǭ, equivalent to coal +‎ (tit)mouse. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koolmeeske, Dutch koolmees, German Low German Kohlmeeske, German Kohlmeise.

Noun

coalmouse (plural coalmouses or coalmice)

  1. A species of small titmouse with a black head; the coaltit, Parus ater.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for coalmouse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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