birdie

birdie

See also: Birdie

English

Alternative forms

• birdy (rare)

Etymology

From bird +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝdi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːdi/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bird‧ie
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di

Noun

birdie (plural birdies)

1. (diminutive) A (little) bird; a birdling; a child's term for a bird.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 121:

     'Listen to th' birdies,' said the child, raising her radiant face to the roof, and at the supreme moment accompanying them in perfect mimicry.

   Aw, that's a cute little birdie. Is it a budgie?

2. (golf) The completion of a hole one stroke below par.

   He scored ten birdies during the tournament.

3. (badminton) A shuttlecock.
4. (Philippines, slang) A man's penis.
5. (electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
6. (usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
7. (usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.

Synonyms

• (diminutive for bird): cocky
• (penis): see Thesaurus:penis

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• eagle
• albatross
• condor
• ostrich

Related terms

• hippo birdie two ewe
• watch the birdie

Translations

bird, birdling

Armenian: թռչնիկ (hy) (tʿṙčʿnik) Belarusian: пту́шка (be) f (ptúška) Bulgarian: птиченце n (ptičence) Chinese: Mandarin: 小鳥／小鸟 (zh) (xiǎoniǎo) Czech: ptáček (cs) m Danish: fugleunge (da) c Dutch: vogeltje (nl) Esperanto: birdeto Finnish: lintunen (fi) French: oiselet (fr) m, oisillon (fr) m Galician: paxariño m German: Vögelchen (de) n, Vöglein (de) n, Vögelein (de) n, Vogerl n (South German, Austrian, colloquial) Greek: πουλάκι (el) n (pouláki) Hebrew: ציפורית‎ f (tsipporit) Ido: uceleto Italian: uccellino (it) m Japanese: 小鳥 (ja) (ことり, kotori) Macedonian: птиченце n (ptičence) Norwegian: småfugl m, titting (dialectal) Old Tupi: gúyrá Polish: ptaszyna (pl) f, ptaszek (pl) m Portuguese: passarinho (pt) Romanian: păsărică f, păsărel m Russian: пти́чка (ru) f (ptíčka), пта́шка (ru) f (ptáška) Serbo-Croatian: птичица f, ptičica (sh) f Slovak: vtáčik m Slovene: ptička f Spanish: pajarito (es) m Ukrainian: пта́шка f (ptáška) Vietnamese: chim non Volapük: bödil

golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par

Czech: birdie Danish: birdie c Finnish: birdie (fi)

badminton: shuttlecock — see shuttlecock

electromagnetic signal generated from within a device

rude gesture with the middle finger

Czech: ukazováček (cs) m Danish: finger (da) c, fuck-finger c Finnish: keskisormi (fi) Romanian: muie (ro) f

rude gesture with the middle and index fingers

See also

• (golf): albatross, bogey, double bogey, eagle

Verb

birdie (third-person singular simple present birdies, present participle birdieing or birdying, simple past and past participle birdied)

1. (intransitive, golf) To score a birdie.

   Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.

2. (transitive, golf) To score a birdie at (a hole).

   Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.

Anagrams

• Bridie, bridie, ebriid

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English birdie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏr.di/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bir‧die

Noun

birdie m (plural birdies)

1. (golf) birdie

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English birdie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœʁ.di/

Noun

birdie m (plural birdies)

1. (golf) birdie

Coordinate terms

• bogey
• eagle
• albatros