birde

Noun

bird (plural birds)

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.

   Synonyms:

   avian, fowl, feathered friend, feathered folk

2. (obsolete) Any winged animal.
3. (obsolete) A young bird, 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: […]1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:[20], folio x, recto
4. (slang) 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'!1886, Edmund Routledge, Routledge's every boy's annual

   Synonyms:

   bloke, chap, guy, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chappy, chield

5. (Ireland, UK, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
   • And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

   Synonyms:

   broad, chick, dame, lass, babe, bint, cake, colleen, cutty, damoiselle

   1. (Ireland, UK, broadly, colloquial) A girlfriend.
      • Mike went out with his bird last night.

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