Mockingbird

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  mockingbird \mockingbird\, mocking bird \mocking bird\n.
     (Zool.),
     A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America
     ({Mimus polyglottos}), remarkable for its exact imitations of
     the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and
     wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the


     outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range
     was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th
     century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is
     also applied to other members of thee same and related
     genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West
     Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, {Melanotis
     caerulescens}.
  
     Syn: mocker, {Mimus polyglottos} .
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mockingbird
       n : long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United
           States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: {mocker},
            {Mimus polyglotktos}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "mockingbird":
     Philomel, ape, bulbul, canary, conformist, copier, copycat,
     copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo,
     echoer, echoist, faker, feathered songster, forger, hypocrite,
     imitator, impersonator, impostor, lark, mavis, mime, mimer, mimic,
     mimicker, mocker, monkey, nightingale, oriole, parrot, phony,
     plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, ringdove,
     sheep, simulator, singing bird, song sparrow, songbird, songster,
     thrush, warbler
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  mockingbird n. Software that intercepts communications (especially
     login transactions) between users and hosts and provides system-like
     responses to the users while saving their responses (especially account
     IDs and passwords). A special case of {Trojan horse}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  mockingbird
       
          Software that intercepts communications (especially login
          transactions) between users and hosts and provides system-like
          responses to the users while saving their responses
          (especially account IDs and passwords).  A special case of
          {Trojan Horse}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]