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willywagtail

willywagtail is the alternative form of willie wagtail.

Meaning of willie wagtail

Noun

willie wagtail (plural willie wagtails)

  1. An Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.
    • The birds were nowhere to be seen or heard, not even a singing willy-wagtail lightly flittering from rock to rock […].2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412

Noun capitalized: Willywagtail

Willywagtail (plural Willywagtails)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of willie wagtail.

Forms of willywagtail

pluralwillywagtails
pluralWillywagtails

Questions about willywagtail

What is willywagtail the alternative form of?
Willywagtail is the alternative form of willie wagtail.
What part of speech is willywagtail?
Willywagtail is a noun.
What is the plural of willywagtail?
The plural of willywagtail is willywagtails.

Words near willywagtail in the dictionary

  1. Willyards
  2. willyer
  3. willyers
  4. willying
  5. Willys
  6. willywagtail
  7. willywagtails
  8. willywaw
  9. willywaws
  10. Wilma
  11. Wilman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: willywagtail (page history and authors); Willywagtail (page history and authors); willie wagtail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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