Etymology
Echoic of its repetitive "chiff-chaff" song of the European subspecies .
Noun
- A small, common warbler, Phylloscopus collybita, with yellowish-green plumage that breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
- the song of the chiffchaff.
- I thought I heard something singing chiffchaff, chiffchaff. So I had a look and there was a chiffchaff.