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birdie

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also:Birdie

English

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Alternative forms

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birdy(rare)

Etymology

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Frombird +‎-ie.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.di/
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈbɝ.di/,[ˈbɚɾi]
(General Australian)IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.di/,[ˈbɜːɾi]
- Audio(General Australian): (file)
Hyphenation:bird‧ie
Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)di

Noun

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birdie (pluralbirdies)

(often childish) Abird; especially, asmall andcute one.
Near-synonyms:birdlet,birdling,birb,cocky
Aw, that's a cute littlebirdie. Is it a budgie?
- 1907,Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson,Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published1980, page121:
  'Listen to th'birdies,' said the child, raising her radiant face to the roof, and at the supreme moment accompanying them in perfect mimicry.
(golf) The completion of a hole onestroke belowpar.
Coordinate terms:buzzard,bogey,par,eagle,albatross,condor,ostrich
He scored tenbirdies during the tournament.
- 1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, inThe Indianapolis Star, volume62, number11, Indianapolis, Ind., page22:
  The heat brought one blessing. It baked the 7,053-yard par 35-35—70 course to concrete hardness and gave some added roll to the drives.Birdie, which have been at a premium, came easier.
(badminton) Ashuttlecock.
(Philippines, slang) Apenis.
Synonyms:seeThesaurus:penis
(electronics) Anelectromagnetic signal generated from within anelectronic device.
(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.

Related terms

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Translations

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bird, birdling

Armenian:թռչնիկ (hy)(tʻṙčʻnik)
Belarusian:пту́шка (be) f(ptúška)
Bulgarian:птиченце n(ptičence)
Catalan:ocellet (ca) m,pardalet m
Chinese:
Mandarin:小鳥 /小鸟 (zh)(xiǎoniǎo)
Czech:ptáček (cs) m
Danish:fugleunge (da) c
Dutch:vogeltje (nl)
Esperanto:birdeto
Finnish:lintunen (fi)
French:oiselet (fr) m,oisillon (fr) m
Galician:paxariño m
German:Vögelchen (de) n,Vöglein (de) n,Vögelein (de) n,Vogerl n(South German, Austrian, colloquial)
Greek:πουλάκι (el) n(pouláki)
Hebrew:ציפורית f(tsipporit)
Ido:uceleto
Italian:uccellino (it) m
Japanese:小鳥 (ja)(ことり, kotori)
Macedonian:птиченце n(ptičence)
Norwegian:småfugl m,titting(dialectal)
Old Tupi:gûyrá
Polish:ptaszyna (pl) f,ptaszek (pl) m
Portuguese:passarinho (pt)
Romanian:păsărică f,păsărel m
Russian:пти́чка (ru) f(ptíčka),пта́шка (ru) f(ptáška)
Sami:
Northern Sami:lottáš
Serbo-Croatian:птичица f,ptičica (sh) f
Slovak:vtáčik m
Slovene:ptička f
Spanish:pajarito (es) m
Ukrainian:пта́шка f(ptáška)
Vietnamese:chim non
Volapük:bödil

golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par

badminton: shuttlecock—seeshuttlecock

electromagnetic signal generated from within a device

rude gesture with the middle finger

rude gesture with the middle and index fingers

Verb

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birdie (third-person singular simple presentbirdies,present participlebirdieingorbirdying,simple past and past participlebirdied)

(intransitive, golf) To score a birdie.
Sörenstambirdied to take the lead.
(transitive, golf) To score a birdie at (a hole).
Sörenstambirdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.