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English
Etymology
From hum + bird.
Noun
humbird (plural humbirds)
- (obsolete) A hummingbird.
1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; , London: Tho Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, , →OCLC, 1st part, page 28:The Humbird is one of the vvonders of the Countrey, being no bigger than a Hornet, yet hath all the demenſions of a Bird, as bill, and vvings, vvith quills, ſpider-like legges, ſmall clavves: For colour, ſhe is as glorious as the Raine-bovv; as ſhe flies, ſhe makes a little humming noiſe like a Humble-bee: vvherefore ſhee is called the Humbird.