name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
birdie
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː.di/
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General-American: /ˈbɝ.di/
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General-American: [ˈbɚɾi]
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Australian: /ˈbɜː.di/
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Australian: [ˈbɜːɾi]
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)di
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CMU ARPABET: B ER1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A name for any (small) bird. (1999: Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 130)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A bird; especially, a small and cute one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, often
Examples
- Near-synonyms: birdlet, birdling, birb, cocky
- Aw, that's a cute little birdie. Is it a budgie?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: birdlet, birdling, birb, cocky
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The completion of a hole one stroke below par.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- He scored ten birdies during the tournament.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A shuttlecock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: badminton
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 6
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 8
A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: usually preceded by "the"
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: usually preceded by "the"
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To score a birdie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To score a birdie at (a hole).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shuttlecock, bird, shuttle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: badminton equipment
noun
Meaning 13
(golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: score
verb
Meaning 14
shoot in one stroke under par
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shoot
History
Etymology
From birdie (“little bird”). Also used as a diminutive of Bertha.
Etymology tree Old English bridd Middle English brid English bird Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English birdie From bird + -ie.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: թռչնիկ (tʻṙčʻnik) — bird, birdling
- Belarusian: пту́шка (ptúška) — bird, birdling
- Bulgarian: птиченце (ptičence) — bird, birdling
- Catalan: ocellet — bird, birdling
- Catalan: pardalet — bird, birdling
- Chinese Mandarin: 小鳥 /小鸟 (xiǎoniǎo) — bird, birdling
- Czech: ptáček — bird, birdling
- Danish: fugleunge — bird, birdling
- Dutch: vogeltje — bird, birdling
- Esperanto: birdeto — bird, birdling
- Finnish: lintunen — bird, birdling
- French: oiselet — bird, birdling
- French: oisillon — bird, birdling
- Galician: paxariño — bird, birdling
- German: Vögelchen — bird, birdling
- German: Vöglein — bird, birdling
- German: Vögelein — bird, birdling
- German: Vogerl — bird, birdling
- Greek: πουλάκι (pouláki) — bird, birdling
- Hebrew: ציפורית (tsipporit) — bird, birdling
- Ido: uceleto — bird, birdling
- Italian: uccellino — bird, birdling
- Japanese: 小鳥 (kotori) — bird, birdling
- Macedonian: птиченце (ptičence) — bird, birdling
- Norwegian: småfugl — bird, birdling
- Norwegian: titting — bird, birdling
- Old Tupi: gûyrá — bird, birdling
- Polish: ptaszyna — bird, birdling
- Polish: ptaszek — bird, birdling
- Portuguese: passarinho — bird, birdling
- Romanian: păsărică — bird, birdling
- Romanian: păsărel — bird, birdling
- Russian: пти́чка (ptíčka) — bird, birdling
- Russian: пта́шка (ptáška) — bird, birdling
- Northern Sami: lottáš — bird, birdling
- Serbo-Croatian: птичица — bird, birdling
- Serbo-Croatian: ptičica — bird, birdling
- Slovak: vtáčik — bird, birdling
- Slovene: ptička — bird, birdling
- Spanish: pajarito — bird, birdling
- Ukrainian: пта́шка (ptáška) — bird, birdling
- Vietnamese: chim non — bird, birdling
- Volapük: bödil — bird, birdling
- Czech: birdie — golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par
- Danish: birdie — golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par
- Finnish: birdie — golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par
- Marathi: बर्डी (barḍī) — golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par
- Thai: เบอร์ดี — golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par
- Czech: ukazováček — rude gesture with the middle finger
- Danish: finger — rude gesture with the middle finger
- Danish: fuck-finger — rude gesture with the middle finger
- Finnish: keskisormi — rude gesture with the middle finger
- Romanian: muie — rude gesture with the middle finger
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