Meaning
A tiny seed-eating finch of fields and roadsides, one of the little 'birds' of Jamaican folk song (the 'chichi bud' family). Grass-quits flit through the long grass feeding on seeds and are among the small birds children try to trap. Common, quick, and unassuming.
Examples
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Di grass-quit dem a feed inna di long grass.
The grassquits are feeding in the long grass.
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A likkle grass-quit hop pon di fence.
A little grassquit hops on the fence.
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'Chichi bud oh' sing bout di likkle bird dem.
'Chichi bud oh' sings about the little birds.
Origin
From 'grass' + 'quit' (a name for several small Caribbean birds). See [[banana-quit]], [[cling-cling]].
How it’s used
A tiny grassland seed-finch; one of the folk-song 'birds'. See [[banana-quit]], [[pea-dove]].