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birdsome

birdsome adjective: like a bird in some manner; free as bird, happy as a bird, etc.

Adjective

birdsome (comparative more birdsome, superlative most birdsome)

  1. Like a bird in some manner; free as bird, happy as a bird, etc.
    • On a morning that he called “glad and birdsome,” Martin further excused me with, “More could have been done with more willingness, but I see the ties.”1962, Eleanor Wallis, Our Thin-air Friends, page 83
    • It's a glad birdsome freedom, to fly up from one field and find hundreds of other fields going off in the horizon […]June 1982, Flying Magazine

Forms of birdsome

comparativemore birdsome
superlativemost birdsome

Origin of birdsome

From bird + -some.

Questions about birdsome

What does birdsome mean?
Birdsome means like a bird in some manner; free as bird, happy as a bird, etc.
What part of speech is birdsome?
Birdsome is an adjective.

Words near birdsome in the dictionary

  1. birdsmouthing
  2. birdsmouths
  3. birdsnest
  4. birdsnest soup
  5. birdsnests
  6. birdsome
  7. birdsona
  8. birdsonas
  9. birdsong
  10. birdsongs
  11. birdspotter

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