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Hummingbird vs Hummer - What's the difference?

hummingbird | hummer |

As nouns the difference between hummingbird and hummer

is that hummingbird is any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover while hummer is one who hums.

As a proper noun Hummer is

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hummingbird

English

(wikipedia hummingbird)

Alternative forms

* humming bird, humming-bird

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
  • * 1857 Thoreau, Henry David , journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau'', Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology ''Thoreau's bird-lore , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
    • Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

    Related terms

    (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae) * trochilidine

    See also

    * snowcap

    hummer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who hums.
  • (informal) A humvee.
  • (informal) A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
    • The newlyweds took a hummer limo back to their casino resort.
  • (informal) A hummingbird.
  • (informal) A humdinger.
  • (baseball) A fastball.
  • (slang) Fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
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