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Definitions for Birding

[1] the identification and observation of wild birds in their natural habitat as a recreation; bird-watching.
[2] any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
[3] a fowl or game bird.
[4] Sports . clay pigeon. a shuttlecock.
[5] Slang . a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.
[6] Informal . an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
[7] Cookery . a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.
[8] Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite.
[9] Chiefly British Slang . a girl or young woman.
[10] Archaic . the young of any fowl.
[11] the bird, Slang . disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage. scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird. an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.
[12] to catch or shoot birds.
[13] to bird-watch.
[14] another name for bird-watching
[15] nickname of (Charlie) Parker
[16] any warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate of the class Aves , characterized by a body covering of feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. Birds vary in size between the ostrich and the humming bird Related adjectives: avian, ornithic
[17] informal a person (usually preceded by a qualifying adjective, as in the phrases rare bird, odd bird, clever bird )
[18] slang , mainly British a girl or young woman, esp one's girlfriend
[19] slang prison or a term in prison (esp in the phrase do bird ; shortened from birdlime , rhyming slang for time )
[20] a bird in the hand something definite or certain
[21] the bird has flown informal the person in question has fled or escaped
[22] the birds and the bees euphemistic , or jocular sex and sexual reproduction
[23] birds of a feather people with the same characteristics, ideas, interests, etc
[24] get the bird informal to be fired or dismissed (esp of a public performer) to be hissed at, booed, or derided
[25] give someone the bird informal to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
[26] kill two birds with one stone to accomplish two things with one action
[27] like a bird without resistance or difficulty
[28] a little bird a (supposedly) unknown informant a little bird told me it was your birthday
[29] for the birds or strictly for the birds informal deserving of disdain or contempt; not important

Words nearby Birding

birdcage, birdcage clock, birder, birdhouse, birdie, birding, birdlike, birdlime, birdman, birds, birds and the bees, the

Origin of Birding

before 900; Middle English byrd, bryd, Old English brid(d ) young bird, chick

Other words from Birding

bird·less , adjective

Word origin for Birding

Old English bridd , of unknown origin