dicky bird
/ˈdɪki ˌbɜrd/
noun
- A small bird; used especially in children's language or as a playful term.
- Look at that little dicky-bird hopping on the lawn!
- A dicky-bird landed on the windowsill and pecked at the crumbs.
- The children sang a song about a dicky-bird in a tree.
- Used in the phrase 'not a dicky-bird' to mean nothing at all, especially no sound or no information.
- I haven't heard a dicky-bird from him since he moved away.
- We waited for news, but there wasn't a dicky-bird.
- The phone has been silent all day — not a dicky-bird.