bird

UK /bɜːd/ US /bɜːd/
noun 6verb 5name 2adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.

Ducks and sparrows are birds.

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.

2

A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.

[…] the foxes have holes, and the brydds of the aier have nestes, but [t]he sonne of the man hath not where onto leye his heede: […]

That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird.

3

A chicken or turkey used as food.

Pitch in and help me stuff the bird if you want Thanksgiving dinner.

4

A man, fellow.

He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rare bird is 'Gentleman Joe'!

"What I mean - I expect that old, red-headed bird at the office sent you round with no other purpose."

5

A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.

And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.

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.”

verb

1

To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.

2

To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.

3

To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

MAMMON: These day-owls. SURLY: That are birding in men's purses

4

To transmit via satellite.

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 being birded through their facilities.

After being sent by fast car to Tel Aviv the cassettes would be 'birded' by satellite to the USA and London.

adj

1

Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

SOC100 isn’t bird at all lol. But ANT101 is super easy & the prof (Dr. Sherry Fukuzawa) is amazing.

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 the birdiest 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.

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