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1864 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 6 Apr. Where's Copeland, who is..employing..his little chipping-bird brain in calling old Democrats traitors?]

1882 Eugene City (Oregon) Guard 4 Nov. She had but just left the convent, with a little sentimentality in her frail bird-brain.

1957 Daily Mail 27 Dec. 4/2 To walk where you can ride doesn't seem so progressive..to my bird-brain.

2021 @mbengelss 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 21 June 2021) I adore him as a professor but my bird brain just says no to econ.

1926 Pittsburgh Sunday Post 21 Mar. vi. 2/8 I suppose that in 1960, my grandchildren..will shake with laughter over a revival of ‘Abie's Irish Rose’, saying one to another, ‘What a bird-brain grandpa must have been!’

1943 Gen 2 Jan. 28/1 There are more birdbrains and dim-wits outside the boxing ring..as ever stepped around in it.

1985 M. Sachs Fat Girl i. 6 She was kind of a birdbrain, talked on the phone all the time and had a weird laugh.

2015 K. Charish Owl & Japanese Circus 290 ‘Stop right there, birdbrain, or I'll shoot,’ Bindi said, making a show of the gun in her hand.

1892 Bathurst (New S. Wales) Free Press & Mining Jrnl. 17 Mar. The bird-brained people who plunge into a delirium of absurdities on the threatening of a disaster.

1938 Medina County (Ohio) Gaz. 21 June 2 The headmaster's wife was..too busy worrying about her bird-brained daughter to notice Colin.

2010 D. Hamilton Italian's Price vii. 138 Dio mio! You could have died, you bird-brained little fool!