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See also:Birdandbírd

English

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 Bird (disambiguation) on Wikipedia
Picture dictionary
bird
bird
bird of prey
bird of prey
bird of prey
parrot
parrot
parrot
passerine
passerine
passerine
ratite
ratite
ratite
seabird
seabird
seabird
shorebird
shorebird
shorebird
waterfowl
waterfowl
waterfowl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbird,brid, fromOld Englishbridd(“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old Englishbridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds,fugol (modernfowl). Gradually replacedfowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.

The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.

Noun

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bird (pluralbirds)

  2. Ananimal of theclade (traditionallyclass)Aves in thephylumChordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, havingfeathers andwings usually capable offlight, having abeakedmouth, and layingeggs.
    Synonyms:avian,fowl(archaic),feathered friend(idiomatic),feathered folk(collectively);see alsoThesaurus:bird
    Ducks and sparrows arebirds.
    • 2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis,Seasons with Birds, page50:
      The level below this is called the Phylum;birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.
  3. (obsolete) Achicken; the young of afowl; a youngeaglet; anestling.
  4. (Should wedelete(+) this sense?)(cooking, slang) Achicken orturkey used as food.
    Pitch in and help me stuff thebird if you want Thanksgiving dinner.
  5. (slang) Aman,fellow.[from mid-19th c.]
    Synonyms:bloke,chap,guy;see alsoThesaurus:man
    • 1886, Edmund Routledge,Routledge's every boy's annual:
      He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rarebird is 'Gentleman Joe'!
    • 1925 July –1926 May,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, inThe Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "What I mean - I expect that old, red-headedbird at the office sent you round with no other purpose."
    • 1939,Raymond Chandler,The Big Sleep, Penguin, published2011, page24:
      The door opened and a tall hungry-lookingbird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.
    • 1957,Sydney J. Bounds,The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page35:
      "But you think he's right?" "Could be. They're rumbirds, all right."
    • 2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay,A cry of angels:
      "Ah, he's a funnybird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.
  7. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Agirl orwoman, especially one considered sexuallyattractive.
    Synonyms:broad,chick,dame,lass;see alsoThesaurus:girl,Thesaurus:woman
    • 1809,Thomas Campbell,Lord Ullin's Daughter:
      And by my word! the bonnybird / In danger shall not tarry.
    • 1918 [1915],Thomas Burke,Nights in London‎[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company, page75:
      After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth[…]; sometimes to saunter, in company with others, up and down that parade until they “click” with one of the “birds.”
    • 2013 September 13, Russell Brand,The Guardian‎[2]:
      The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces,birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
    • 2017, David Weigel,The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company:
      “All these fantasticbirds, long hair, made up, false eyelashes and things, crowding round this group of scabby, spotty teenagers,” marveled Anderson.
    1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Agirlfriend.[from early 20th c.]
      Mike went out with hisbird last night.
      • 2002, “Geezers need excitement”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics),Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:
        But all of a sudden though, just through the smoke / It's yourbird laughing and joking with a bloke / Ain't just that either, as she moves closer / In a shape what looks like they're lovers, he's tonguing her!
  8. (slang) Anaircraft.
  9. (slang) Asatellite.
    • 1988,Satellite communications. Jan-Oct. 1988:
      Deployment of the fourthbird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the Inmarsat first generation system
    • 1992,Cable Vision:
      Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat IIbird?
    • 2015, John Fuller,Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer,→ISBN, page384:
      In reality, the Air Force was never able to place abird in orbit that quickly.
  10. (UK, with definite article, chiefly in phrases) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
  11. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which themiddle finger is extended.
    Synonym:the finger
    • 2002,The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.
      For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped thebird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.
    • 2003,James Patterson,Peter de Jonge,The Beach House, Warner Books, page305:
      Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him thebird with each one.
  12. Ayardbird.
  13. (slang, US) Akilogram ofcocaine.
    Synonyms:chicken,brick
    • 2015 January 12,Lil Wayne, “Sh!t” (track 2), inSorry 4 the Wait 2‎[3]:
      Never dirt on my knees
      I'm just serving these fiends
      Sellbirds to the bees
      I sellbirds to the trees
  14. (slang, Canada, Philippines) Apenis.
    • 2004 May 9,Mike Clattenburg,Mike Smith (actor), 05:29 from the start, inTrailer Park Boys(Conky), season 4, episode 5 (TV series), spoken by Bubbles (Mike Smith):
      BUBBLES: One time I was making a model and I glued the wing to a B17 bomber to mybird by accident.
  15. (UK, slang)Jailtime;time inprison.
  16. (informal)Snowbird(retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
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Descendants
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Translations
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animal
person
woman
girlfriend
vulgar hand gesture
penis
See also
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Verb

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bird (third-person singular simple presentbirds,present participlebirding,simple past and past participlebirded)

  1. (intransitive) To observe or identifywild birds in theirnaturalenvironment.
  2. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; tothieve.
  4. (transitive, television) Totransmit viasatellite.
    • 1995, David D. Pearce,Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page43:
      Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is beingbirded through their facilities.
    • 2012, Yoel Cohen,Media Diplomacy, page127:
      After being sent by fast car to Tel Aviv the cassettes would be 'birded' by satellite to the USA and London.

Adjective

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bird (comparative(rare)birdier,superlative(rare)birdiest)

  1. (Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to bepassed with very little work; having the nature of abird course.
    • 2020 October 16, illegalsalt, “Thoughts on these bird courses”, inReddit‎[4], r/UTM:
      SOC100 isn’tbird at all lol. But ANT101 is super easy & the prof (Dr. Sherry Fukuzawa) is amazing.
    • 2022 June 17, ConradIsMyDaddy, “How to Graduate from the University of Waterloo's Computer Science Program with the Least Amount of Effort”, inReddit‎[5], r/uwaterloo:
      but admittedly, all the hours spent creating excel sheets optimizing my course plan, all the research finding the absolutely best professors, all the smart friends i made, all the alumni i contacted to collect crowdmarks of past exams, all the research i did finding thebirdiest courses of all...... all of it was wayyyyyy more fun to me than just sitting down and studying like a normal kid. it was kind of just like playing a video game.

Etymology 2

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Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened frombird-lime for "time".

Noun

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bird (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Aprisonsentence.
    He’s doingbird.
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prison sentence

Verb

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bird (third-person singular simple presentbirds,present participlebirding,simple past and past participlebirded)

  1. (transitive, slang) To bring intoprison, toroof.
    • 2017, “No Hook”, ZK & Digga D (lyrics), CDM (music):
      Free Criminal, he gotbirded
      That's a L but I know he’ll firm it
      I was vexed when I heard that verdict
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to bring into prison, to roof

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