bird
Bedeutung (English)
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- A member of the class of animals 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.
- (slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- (colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (slang) An aircraft.
- (slang) A satellite.
- (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
- Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.
- (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang) A penis.
- (slang) Jailtime; time in prison.
Concepts
Synonyms
female bird
twice-born
scrub jay
common sandpiper
laughing jackass
oriental cuckoo
red-necked stint
sharp-tailed sandpiper
small person
wild bird
grey-tailed tattler
wandering tattler
Sooty Oystercatcher
Richard the Third
depth control bird
depth controller
fixed-wing aircraft
gallinaceous bird
kind of bird
wood-pecker
young of an animal
Swinhoe’s snipe
black-fronted plover
red-kneed dotterel
royal spoonbill
yellow-billed spoonbill
bird-watch
red-collared lorikeet
red-tailed black cockatoo
fish-eating
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/bɜːd/
Etymology (English)
In summary
From Middle English bird, brid, from Old English bridd (“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old English bridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds, fugol (modern fowl). Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century. The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.
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