Robbins

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Several of the small thrushlike songbirds with orange-red breasts that are common across North America and Europe
2. Multiple birds of the robin kind, typically with brownish-gray backs and reddish breasts, often seen hopping across lawns
3. More than one robin, the migratory songbird known for its cheerful song and rusty-orange chest feathers

Etymology: "Robbins" is the plural of "robbin," a noun. The word is a plural form, so its story is the story of its singular, and the singular's origin is not recorded in the available material, so there is no documented first use, date, or source language to report. What can be said is that the plural follows the ordinary English pattern of adding "-s" to a count noun.