Dough-Bird is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 197 anagrams from letters in dough-bird (-bddghioru).
An Americanism dating back to 1825-35
Apparently, that was the beginning of the end of the "dough bird," which was another name for this curlew.
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