birb
UK/bɜːb//bɜɹb/
birb noun: a bird, especially a small and cute one.
Noun
birb (plural birbs)
- A bird, especially a small and cute one.
- Near-synonyms: birdie, birdlet, birdling
- The here-then-gone-then-here-again appearance of the #birb (as Twitter loves to lovingly refer to pretty, pretty birdies) plus the internet’s instant oatmeal obsession with him inspired WIRED’s Paris Martineau to propose a different nickname for the fowl: duckboi2018 October 10, Emily Dreyfuss, “Glamour Duck and the Internet's Rabid Love of Wild Animals”, in WIRED
Synonyms of birb
Forms of birb
| plural | birbs |
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Origin of birb
Alteration of bird. Possibly coined by Katie Gouldin on the humorous Twitter account @ProBirdRights in a 2012 tweet, although it did not become widely used until 2014.
Words that rhyme with birb
Questions about birb
- What does birb mean?
- Birb means a bird, especially a small and cute one.
- What part of speech is birb?
- Birb is a noun.
- How do you pronounce birb?
- Birb is pronounced /bɜːb/ (UK).
- What is the plural of birb?
- The plural of birb is birbs.
Words near birb in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: birb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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