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shilfas

shilfas is the plural of shilfa.

Meaning of shilfa

Noun

shilfa (plural shilfas)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The chaffinch.
    • And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.1866, Alexander Smith, Alfred Hagart's Household, page 20

Questions about shilfas

What is shilfas the plural of?
Shilfas is the plural of shilfa.

Words near shilfas in the dictionary

  1. shiledars
  2. Shiley
  3. Shileys
  4. shilf
  5. shilfa
  6. shilfas
  7. Shilford
  8. Shilha
  9. Shiliak
  10. Shilin
  11. shilingi

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