"birdsitter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: birdsitters [plural]
Etymology: From bird + sitter, modelled on babysitter. Etymology templates: {{af|en|bird|sitter}} bird + sitter, {{m|en|babysitter}} babysitter Head templates: {{en-noun}} birdsitter (plural birdsitters)
  1. Someone who birdsits. Synonyms: bird-sitter
    Sense id: en-birdsitter-en-noun-A3ezUohw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for birdsitter meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

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          "ref": "1959 July 31, “All Because of a Bird”, in The Circleville Herald, volume 7, number 179, page 8",
          "text": "When a Del Mar woman goes out, she entrusts her parakeet to only one person, a teen-age girl she hires to stay home with the bird. But the girl's mother won't allow her daughter to be out alone. And that's why a baby-sitter is hired to sit with the bird-sitter while she sits with the bird.",
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