mouissaon

Norman

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Noun

mouissaon m (plural mouissaons)

  1. (Guernsey) bird
    • 1883, Denys Corbet, ‘Le R'nouvé’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
      Tous les mouissons sous l's-ormes du ménâge / Li font la fête auve un chànt sans pareil […] .
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    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 514:
      Un mouisson à la main vaut mûx que daeux qui volent.
      A bird in the hand is worth two on the wing.
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