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Keeping Up Appearances vocabulary
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budgerigar
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synonyms: shell parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus ???
tags: [avian]
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Definition:the budgie a.k.a. parakeet
photo: by Guillaume PILLET from Cachan, France [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 )],
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Hyacinth: Do be kind to daddy, remember his track record in budgerigar circles.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Looking at Properties (1993)
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the totters of his toes, the tetters on his tumtytum, the rats in his garret, the bats in his belfry, the budgerigars and bumbosolom beaubirds, the hullabaloo and the dust in his ears since it took him a month to steal a march he was hardset to mumorise more than a word a week.
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939)
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