See birb on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Alteration of bird.", "forms": [ { "form": "birbs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "birb (plural birbs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "DoggoLingo", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "lifeform", "langcode": "en", "name": "Birds", "orig": "en:Birds", "parents": [ "Vertebrates", "Chordates", "Animals", "Lifeforms", "All topics", "Life", "Fundamental", "Nature" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2018 October 10, Emily Dreyfuss, “Glamour Duck and the Internet's Rabid Love of Wild Animals”, in WIRED:", "text": "The here-then-gone-then-here-again appearance of the #birb (as Twitter loves to lovingly refer to pretty, pretty birdies) plus the internet’s instant oatmeal obsession with him inspired WIRED’s Paris Martineau to propose a different nickname for the fowl: duckboi", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2019 December 12, Asher Elbein, “When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide”, in Audubon:", "text": "Violent or unseemly behavior doesn’t disqualify a bird from birbness: the aggression of hummingbirds […] and brain-eating of Great Tits are immaterial to their round fluffiness. You could post a picture of any of these on reddit under \"murder birb\" and nobody would blink.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A bird, especially a small and cute one." ], "id": "en-birb-en-noun-3rh20jBI", "links": [ [ "Internet", "Internet" ], [ "slang", "slang" ], [ "childish", "childish" ], [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "bird", "bird" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Internet slang, childish, humorous) A bird, especially a small and cute one." ], "tags": [ "Internet", "childish", "humorous" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/bɜːb/", "tags": [ "Received-Pronunciation" ] }, { "ipa": "/bɜɹb/", "tags": [ "General-American" ] }, { "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)b" } ], "word": "birb" }
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