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单词 bird
释义

bird/buhd/ noun

any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates whose bodies are more or less completely covered with feathers and whose forelimbs are modified as wings: class Aves

chiefly informal a person, esp somebody slightly odd

He seemed an uppish old bird — Conan Doyle

chiefly Brit, informal a girl

Brit, informal a period of imprisonment

birds of a feather

people of similar characters, tastes, or interests

for the birds

informal trivial or worthless

get the bird

chiefly Brit, informal to be hissed, booed, or jeered at

chiefly Brit, informal to be dismissed or fired

give somebody the bird/give somebody/get the bird

chiefly Brit, informal to hiss, boo, or jeer at somebody, or to be hissed or jeered at (somebody)

chiefly Brit, informal to dismiss or fire (somebody)

the bird has flown

the person whom one expected to find or capture has escaped

the birds and the bees

informal, humorous the facts of sex and sexual reproduction, esp in a form suitable for children

birdlike adj
[Old English bridd; (sense 3) short for rhyming slang birdlime time]
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