Definition of "jay-bird" []

• A jay; especially, the common blue jay of the United States. (noun)
• A stupid person; a country simpleton; a hay-seed: same as jay, 3 . (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Congratulations again to Stevie Mac, that annoying little kid who keeps telling all & sundry that Dr. James Hansen, PhD, NASA/GISS Dir. of Planetary Studies, Keeper and Protector of AGW Relics & Holies, is naked as a jay-bird."
• "The katydid led off with a trombone solo; the cricket chimed in with his E. flat cornet; the bumblebee played on his violoncello, and the jay-bird, laughed with his piccolo."
• "“I crep’ up the bank just now, ” said Kentuck one day, in a breathless state of excitement, “and dern my skin if he was n’t a talking to a jay-bird as was a sittin’ on his lap."