bird

Meaning

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.
2. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
3. (slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
4. (slang) A man, fellow.
5. (Ireland, UK, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
6. (Ireland, UK, broadly, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
7. (slang) An aircraft.
8. (slang) A satellite.
9. (UK, with-definite-article) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
10. (with-definite-article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
11. A yardbird.
12. (US, slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
13. (Canada, Philippines, slang) A penis.
14. (UK, slang) Jailtime; time in prison.
15. (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).

Verb

1. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
2. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
4. (transitive) To transmit via satellite.

Adj

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

Verb

To bring into prison, to roof.

Synonyms

fowl

chick

chicken

🐔

pigeon

birdie

doll

dove

🕊️

animal

🐾

swallow

shuttlecock

sparrow

parrot

🦜

birdwatch

shuttle

dame

wench

skirt

hiss

hoot

poultry

creature

crane

flying

twice-born

scrub jay

chickadee

Bronx cheer

bat

🦇

female bird

whimbrel

razzing

snort

fish

🐟

insect

boo

gull

blue jay

airplane

✈️

razz

eagle

🦅

hawk

raspberry

crow

blackbird

cock

avocet

clay pigeon

flycatcher

fish-eating

birdlike

Translations

oiseau

🐦

pájaro

🐦

Vogel

🐦

pássaro

uccello

🐦

ave

🐦

vogel

🐦

πουλί

kuş

🐦

ocell

🐦

avis

🐦

ave

🐦

πτηνό

طير

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɜːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bird

Inherited from Old English: bridd

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.

Sentences

As we can tell the bird by its singing , we can tell the person by its ideas .

It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest .

For the state bird , the white-winged wood duck , Assam is a globally important area .