Home › Words › C › chickadeechickadee/ˈt͡ʃɪk.əˌdi/chickadee means any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.chickadee is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪk.əˌdi/.EtymologyApparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls having a distinctive “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” sound, possibly influenced by chick or chicken.nounAny of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.e.g.“In Walden wood the chickadee / Runs round the pine and maple tree” — 1904, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fragments on Nature and Life”, in Poems:Affectionate term of address.e.g.“I got a date with a cute little chickadee in just a few, an' I don't wanna be late!” — 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chickaree 70% match — A small squirrel, one of the species of Tamiasciurus, that lives in evergreen forests of North America. vs chickadee →chickabiddy 66% match — A chicken or similar bird. vs chickadee →chickling 62% match — A small chick or chicken; a baby chick. vs chickadee →groundpecker 61% match — A species of bird in the tit family Paridae, Pseudopodoces humilis. vs chickadee →dicaeid 60% match — Any flowerpecker in the family Dicaeidae. vs chickadee →chicklet 60% match — A small or young chick. vs chickadee →stonechat 59% match — Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus Saxicola that feed on insects. vs chickadee →chicklike 58% match — Resembling or characteristic of a chick (young bird). vs chickadee →