Definitions for birding
birding
bird·ing
Spelling: [bur-ding]
IPA: /ˈbɜr dɪŋ/
Birding is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 95 anagrams from letters in birding (bdgiinr).
Definitions for birding
noun
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the identification and observation of wild birds in their natural habitat as a recreation; bird-watching.
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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.
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a fowl or game bird.
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Sports.
clay pigeon.
a shuttlecock.
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Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity:
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Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
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Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised:
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Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite.
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Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.
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Archaic. the young of any fowl.
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the bird, Slang.
disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.:
scoffing or ridicule:
an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.
Idioms
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a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information:
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bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates:
Also, bird in hand.
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birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common:
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eat like a bird, to eat sparingly:
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for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously:
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kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort:
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the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction:
verb (used without object)
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to catch or shoot birds.
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to bird-watch.
Origin of birding
1560-70 for earlier sense “hunting birds”; bird + -ing1
Examples for birding
He is gone a birding sir Iohn, and I hope will not come home yet.
Social scientists have studied what draws a person to birding, and there are differing schools of thought.
A birding thus early, what forbidden Game rouz'd you so soon?
One of the merits of “birding” with a sparrow-hawk is that everyone out is always busily engaged.