ETYMOLOGY
from wool + bird (the offspring or young of animals, obs.)
EXAMPLE
“… With all the natural timidity of the hare whom he thus particularised, I was proceeding to help him, when Echo inquired if he should send me the breast of a swiss; and the facetious Eglantine, to increase my confusion, requested to be allowed to cut me a slice off the wing of a wool bird. …”
(Note: swiss = a pheasant)
From: The English Spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical and humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society
By Charles Molloy Westmacott, 1825
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