canary
kuh ne ree
- n someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- n a female singer
- n a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
- n any of several small Old World finches
- s having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow
- In Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school.
- She moves on to a canary-yellow backpack.
- Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building.