| 词汇 | colly birds |
| 词源 | colly birds. If you’ve ever wondered what the gift of “colly birds” was on the fourth day of Christmas in the traditional song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” wonder no more: colly bird is simply an old name for a blackbird, colly a dialect word for soot or coal dust that derives from English col, coal. |
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