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birthday|ˈbɜːθdeɪ|
[f. birth n.1 + day.]
1. The day on which any one is born; also fig. that of regeneration; transf. (of things), the day or date of origin or beginning.
1580Baret Alv. B 711 The daye that the citie was first founded on, the birth day. 1599Davies in Farr S.P. (1845) I. 102 We..That haue bene euer from our birth-day blind. 1709Steele Tatler No. 130 ⁋10 The Anniversary of the Birth-day of this Glorious Queen. 1784Cowper Task i. 18 The birthday of Invention. 1858Sears Athan. viii. 68 Now therefore comes the second birthday of man.
2. The anniversary or annual observance of the day of birth of any one; sometimes spec. that of the sovereign.
[c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 6 On Herodes gebyrd-dæᵹe.] 1382Wyclif Mark vi. 21 Eroude in his birthe day [1388 birthdai] made a soper to the princes. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 796 To celebrate his Martyrs byrth day. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. v. i. 71 This is my Birth-day; as this very day Was Cassius borne. 1755Connoisseur No. 117 This suit..was made up for a noble lord on the last birthday. 1859Tennyson Enid 633 A costly gift..given her on the night Before her birthday.
3. attrib. and comb., as birthday boy, birthday card, birthday dress, birthday feast, birthday finery, birthday gift, birthday girl, birthday ode, birthday party, birthday present, birthday treat, birthday wish, etc.; birthday book, a book in diary form with spaces for recording birthdays; usu. having quotations for each day from the works of a particular author; also, a book suitable for a birthday present; a book compiled to honour someone's birthday; birthday honours, the titles of honour conferred by the sovereign on each anniversary of his or her official birthday; so birthday gazette; † birthday('s mind, the commemoration of a birthday; birthday suit, a dress worn on the King's birthday; also (humorous): the bare skin; so birthday attire, birthday clothes, birthday gear.
1860‘G. & P. Wharton’ Wits & Beaux of Society I. 127 In ‘birthday attire’.
1859(title) The boy's birth-day book; a collection of tales, essays, and narratives of adventure. 1881C. Dixon (title) The Longfellow birthday book. 1884Spectator 12 Jan. 58/1 Mr. Arnold does not describe classes of men sufficiently numerous and various to supply apt quotations for a birthday book. 1967Listener 25 May 690/1 Garlands, festschrifts and birthday books tend to be tedious.
1959H. Pinter Birthday Party ii, Shine it on the birthday boy.
1902Little Folks Oct. 287/2 Miss Shaw seemed to appreciate Moya's birthday card very much. 1961H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary ii. 39 My birthday was on Sunday... I have got six birthday cards.
1732Ld. Egmont Diary 2 June (1920) 279 Mr. Spencer was a man of extraordinary breeding to acknowledge the favour of a common visit in his birthday clothes.
1801M. Edgeworth Belinda I. v. 148 (title) Birthday Dresses.
1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain I. xxiii. 244 Mrs. Charles Wilmot's little girl was to have a birth-day feast, at which Mary, Blanche, and Aubrey were to appear.
1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 84, I now stood..in all the truth of nature... The figure I made..outshone all other birth-day finery whatever.
1910Beatrix Gatacre General Gatacre xvii. 262 On the 24th in the Birthday Gazette, his name appeared as a recipient of the Gold Medal of a New Order, the Kaiser-i-Hind.
1734Swift Strephon & Chloe in Poems (1958) II. 591 To see some radiant nymph appear In all her glitt'ring birthday gear.
1868W. Collins Moonst. (1871) 61 Your uncle's birthday gift.
1909E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. i. 3 (title) Birthday Girl.
1886Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 8 Then the Birthday Honours came. Sad to state and sad to see, Stood against the Rajah's name nothing more than C.I.E.! 1897Sat. Rev. 5 June 626/2 In any list of Birthday honours or New Year honours one expects to see the name of at least one distinguished man.
1606Holland Sueton. 265 Because he had celebrated the Birth-dayes-minde, of Otho the Emperour. Ibid. 101 His birth-day-mind [natalem suum] falling out in the time of the Plebeian games.
1803C. Wilmot Let. 6 Mar. in Irish Peer (1920) 146 The composition of a birthday Ode. 1942E. Blom Music in England vi. 104 Purcell in his birthday-ode and welcome-song mood.
1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 314 The time that a birthday ox takes in roasting.
1852Mrs. Gaskell Let. 4 Sept. (1966) 198 Yesterday..we had a birthday party for Julia.
1796M. Edgeworth Parent's Assistant (ed. 2) II. ii. (title) The Birth-Day Present. 1854C. M. Yonge Castle Builders xxii. 342 Her immense wax-doll, a birthday present from her papa.
1753Smollett Ct. Fathom II. xli. 43 He made an apology for receiving the count in his birth-day suit. 1809[see suit n. 19 e]. 1727Swift What Pass. Lond. Wks. 1755 III. i. 184 So many birth-day suits were countermanded the next day. 1922Blunden Bonadventure xxvii. 167 A dancing saloon, where birthday suits were the fashion.
1851Sharpe's London Jrnl. XIII. 200/1 Father alwaies gives us a birthdaye treat. 1902A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel i. 12 I'll be content this year with the cheapest birthday treat you ever gave me. |