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devil screechers

devil screechers is the plural of devil screecher.

Meaning of devil screecher

Noun

devil screecher (plural devil screechers)

  1. (UK, archaic) A swift.
    • My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher.1883, Edgar MacCulloch, “Notes, Queries, Notices and News”, in The Folk-Lore Journal, volume 1, number 12, page 394

Questions about devil screechers

What is devil screechers the plural of?
Devil screechers is the plural of devil screecher.

Words near devil screechers in the dictionary

  1. devil lies in the details
  2. devil negation
  3. devil ray
  4. devil rays
  5. devil screecher
  6. devil screechers
  7. devil seam
  8. devil seams
  9. devil sign
  10. devil signs
  11. devil smoke

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