birdie

See also: Birdie

English

Etymology

From bird +‎ -ie. Compare Dutch vogeltje (“birdie”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝdi/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːdi/
Hyphenation: bird‧ie
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di

Noun

birdie (plural birdies)

(diminutive) A bird; a birdling.
Aw, that's a cute little birdie. Is it a budgie?
(golf) The completion of a hole one stroke below par.
He scored ten birdies during the tournament.
(badminton) A shuttlecock.
(Philippines, slang) A man's penis.
(electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.

Synonyms

(diminutive for bird): cocky

Related terms

watch the birdie

Translations

bird, birdling

Armenian: թռչնիկ (hy) (tʿṙčʿnik)
Belarusian: птушка (be) f (ptúška)
Bulgarian: птиченце n (ptičence)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小鳥 (zh), 小鸟 (zh) (xiǎoniǎo)
Czech: ptáček (cs) m
Danish: fugleunge (da) c
Dutch: vogeltje (nl)
Esperanto: birdeto
Finnish: lintunen
French: oiselet (fr) m, oisillon (fr) 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 (ptíčence)
Norwegian: småfugl m, titting (dialect)
Polish: ptaszyna (pl) f, ptaszek (pl) m
Portuguese: passarinho (pt)
Russian: пти́чка (ru) f (ptíčka), пта́шка (ru) f (ptáška)
Serbo-Croatian: птичица f, ptičica (sh) f
Slovak: vtáčik m
Slovene: ptička f
Spanish: pajarito m
Ukrainian: пташка f (ptáška)
Vietnamese: chim non
Volapük: bödil

golf: completion of a hole one stroke below par

Danish: birdie c

Finnish: birdie (fi)

badminton: shuttlecock — see shuttlecock

electromagnetic signal generated from within a device

rude gesture with the middle finger

Danish: finger (da) c, fuck-finger c

Finnish: keskisormi (fi)

rude gesture with the middle and index fingers

Verb

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

(intransitive, golf) To score a birdie.
Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.
(transitive, golf) To score a birdie.
Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.

Anagrams

Bridie, bridie, ebriid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English birdie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bœʁ.di/

Noun

birdie m (plural birdies)

(golf) birdie

Coordinate terms

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