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English
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Etymology
French geai, Old French gai, jaj, perhaps from Old High German g�hi; compare gay.
Its currency in the early 1900s can be gauged by this portion of the popular title song of a George M. Cohan musical play of 1905, Forty-five Minutes from Broadway:
Oh, what a fine bunch of reubens
Oh, what a jay atmosphere;
They have whiskers like hay,
And imagine Broadway
Only forty-five minutes from here!
Pronunciation
enPR|j�, IPA|/d�eɪ/, SAMPA|/dZeI/
rhymes|eɪ
Noun
en-noun
- Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genus|genera, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually having a crest.
- An old-fashioned term for a dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.
Translations
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Albanian: grifsha
Basque: eskinoso
Belarusian: �ойка
Breton: kegin
Bulgarian: �ойка (sojka)
Catalan: gaig
Croatian: Å¡ojka
Czech: sojka f
Danish: skovskade (Eurasian jay)
Dutch: Vlaamse gaai m
Esperanto: garolo
Estonian: pasknäär
Faroese: gnelliskjóra
Finnish: närhi
French: geai m, geai des chênes m
Frisian: houtekster
Friulian: gjaie, badascule
Galician: gaio, pega marza
German: Eichelhäher m
Greek: κί��α f
Hungarian: szajkó
Icelandic: skrækskaði
Irish: scréachóg
Italian: ghiandaia f
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Ladin: gacia<!--Note: do not put the scientific name here for the Latin: *Latin: Garrulus glandarius -->
Latvian: sīlis
Lithuanian: k�kštas
Lower Sorbian: kabeja
Macedonian: �оjка (sojka)
Maltese: sultan i�-�awl
Norwegian: nøtteskrike (Eurasian jay)
Occitan: gag
Polish: sójka f
Portuguese: gralha f, gaio m
Romanian: gaiţa f
Romansh: sgragia f
Russian: �ойка (sójka) f
Sami: látteguovssat
Sardinian: piga, pica, marabiga, mariabiga, melapica
Scottish: sgreuchag-choille
Serbian: к�еjа, �оjка (kreja, šojka)
Slovak: sojka škriekavá
Slovene: Å¡oja
Spanish: arrendajo m, urraca f
Swedish: nötskrika (Eurasian jay)
Turkish: alakarga
Ukrainian: �ойка (sojka)
Upper Sorbian: škr�kawa
Welsh: sgrech y coed
Derived terms
blue jay
Canada jay
California jay
Florida jay
green jay
Jenny jay
jay pie
jay thrush<!--(Zoölogy): any one several species of Asiatic singing birds, of the genera Garrulax, Grammatoptila, and related genera of the family Crateropodidae; as; the white-throated jay thrush (Grammatoptila albogularis), of India.-->
jaywalker
jaywalking
See also
kae
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