pickcheese

English

Etymology

pick +‎ cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.

Noun

pickcheese (plural pickcheeses)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The blue tit.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The fruit of the mallow.

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