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Definition: Birdie |
BirdieNoun1. (in golf) a score of one stroke under par on a golf hole. 2. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers. Verb1. To shoot in one stroke under par; in golf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "birdie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing for a jay. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Slang | Noun. Source: Sometimes used to describe a small or baby bird. Definition: Term used when describing 1 shot under par(the basic number of stokes that should be taken to get the golf ball in the whole. Context: When saying that someone just birdied the hole it is meaning that they shot 2 shots better than what was expected on that hole. Social Source: University of Oregon Golf Team. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Unsure, perhaps the feeling of flying high due to a good score. Definition: A player scores a birdie when they take one fewer stroke to get the ball in the hole in respect to par. Context: This has nothing to due with a bird, but instead reflects a players score on one golf hole. Social Source: Golfers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Noun. Source: Unclear. Definition: To shoot one stroke under par. Context: "Birdie" is used when a player completes a hole with a score of one stroke under the course's necessary amount of strokes for that particular hole. Social Source: Golfer. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Birdie is an electric roadster made by the British company Arton. It is fitted with an 82 horsepower electric motor and a 4-speed tiptrionic transmission. This rockets the car from 0-60 MPH in under 9 seconds. The body is composed of a carbon polymer and kevlar composite giving the car a mass of 635 kilograms. The car uses independent double wishbone suspension and independent brakes. The range per charge of this electric vehicle is about 125 miles and can be fully charged within three hours.
External Links
Arton Birdie photo, stats, and specs:
- http://www.angelfire.com/ab/pvj60/arton.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arton Birdie."
Synonyms: BirdieSynonyms: bird (n), shuttle (n), shuttlecock (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Birdie Num Num (The Party; writing credit: Blake Edwards) | |
Lyrics | What makes a birdie fly (Too Busy Thinking About My Baby; performing artist: Marvin Gaye) | |
Clever | Little birdie in the sky, dropped a poopie in my eye. I didn't scream, I didn't cry, but I thanked the Lord that cows can't fly! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Birdie (1971) Watch the Birdie... Die! (1968) Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Watch the Birdie (1958) Lulu Gets the Birdie (1944) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Birdie" Bowers reading the thermometer on the ramp, June 6th, 1911. In: "Scott's Last Expedition", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. P. 214. Vol. I. Library Call Number G850 1910 .S35 1913. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Birdie Cree. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "The Birdie House" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "Our birdhouse covered in the first snow of 2002..." | "Birdie on statue" by Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt Commentary: "Birdie on statue in Bergen." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Birdie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.16% of the time. "Birdie" is used about 181 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.16% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.84% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 181 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "birdie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Birdie | First name Female | 7,000 | 1,083 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "birdie": double birdie. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "birdie": birdie-birdie, birdie-eagle, birdie-ing. | |
Ending with "birdie": seven-birdie. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "birdie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zog i vogël. (various references) | |
Arabic | طويئرطائر صغيره, طائر صغير, طائر رضيع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | птиченце. (various references) | |
Chinese | 小鸟. (various references) | |
Czech | ptáèek (bird, dunlin, long-lived, long-spur, Snowbird). (various references) | |
Finnish | typykkä (bird, dame, girl, poppet), pimu (baby, bird, chick, doll), lintunen. (various references) | |
French | petit oiseau (small bird), oisillon (birdy, little bird, small bird), oiselet, moins-un. (various references) | |
German | vögelchen. (various references) | |
Greek | σύριγμα υψηλού βαθμού. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צפורה, צפור קטנה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kismadár (dickey, dickey-bird, dicky, peeper). (various references) | |
Italian | uccellino (baby bird, chick, fledgling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バーディー . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irdiebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | passarinho (little bird, nestling), pássaro (bird, chickadee, dodo, sparrow). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãsãricã (dicky bird). (various references) | |
Russian | пташка, птичка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ptičica. (various references) | |
Spanish | pajarito (dicky, titmouse). (various references) | |
Swedish | liten fågel. (various references) | |
Thai | พิลึกๆ (birdy), การได้คะแนนในกีฬากอล์ฟ. (various references) | |
Turkish | minik kuş (Dickey, dickey-bird, dicky), küçük kuş, golfte bir vuruş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пташка (bunting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chim non (squab-chick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "birdie": birdied, birdieing, birdies. (additional references) | |
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"Birdie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidrie, bairdii, barcie, Bardai, Bardhi, Bardia, beardie, bedie, bereid, bertie, bidae, biddie, bidie, bidri, bidry, Biodiv, birde, Birdge, birdlife, birdy, Birir, birmday, Birmi, Birmid, birtian, Bisdee, Bkirki, bordier, Bordieu, Bordua, Bridei, Bridewel, Brixia, brodie, Brudieu, Bryddie, Buidhie, Burgdy, byrde, byrdsian, byrnie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "birdie" (pronounced ber"dē) |
| 3 | -er" d ē | nerdy, sturdy, thirty, wordy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-i-r" | |
-1 letter: bider, bride, rebid. | |
-2 letters: bide, bier, bird, bred, brie, dire, drib, ired, irid, ride. | |
-3 letters: bed, bid, deb, dib, die, ire, reb, red, rei, rib, rid. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, de, ed, er, id, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-i-r" | |
+1 letter: birdied, birdies. | |
+2 letters: birdlike, birdlime, diatribe, firebird, ricebird. | |
+3 letters: bedirtied, bedirties, begirding, binderies, birdieing, birdlimed, birdlimes, brigadier, brutified, debriding, diablerie, diatribes, dirigible, fiberized, firebirds, herbicide, hybridize, inscribed, rebidding, rebinding, ricebirds, riflebird, turbidite, verbicide, verbified. | |
+4 letters: arabicized, banditries, bedirtying, begirdling, bestriding, biliverdin, brickfield, bridesmaid, brigadiers, brigandine, broideries, broidering, debriefing, debruising, deorbiting, describing, diableries, dirigibles, distribute, fimbriated, herbicidal, herbicides, highbinder, hybridized, hybridizer, hybridizes, imbittered, imbricated, inbreeding, incredible, incredibly, inebriated, prebinding, prohibited, rabidities, rebuilding, redbaiting, rhomboidei, ribaldries, riflebirds, subdivider, subsidizer, turbidites, verbicides. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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