warbler

warble +‎ -er

warbler (plural warblers)

1. Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).
2. One who warbles.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Tickell

     In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo.

   • 2012, Joe Bonomo, Conversations with Greil Marcus (page 87)

     And it looked like at first she was just another pop warbler, and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is a great record, but nothing threatening, nothing strange.

3. (Britain, slang) A hissy fit.

• bay-breasted warbler
• black and white warbler
• black-capped warbler
• black-throated green warbler
• blue yellow-backed warbler
• bush warbler
• Canadian warbler
• Cape May warbler
• chestnut-sided warbler
• Connecticut warbler
• creeping warbler
• fly-catching warbler
• ground warbler
• MacGillivray's warbler
• New World warbler
• pine warbler
• prairie warbler
• prothonotary warbler
• wood-warbler
• worm-eating warbler
• yellow-rumped warbler
• yellow warbler

• brawler