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say it: MAH-king-burd
mockingbird is a noun meaning "long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds". It is pronounced /ˈmɑkɪŋˌbɝd/ — MAH-king-burd. It carries one recorded sense.
long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mockingbird come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.