different between bird vs junco

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?d/, [b??]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [b??d]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English brid, from Old English bird, brid, bridd (“young bird, chick”), of uncertain origin and relation. Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.

The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid?18th Century.

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
   • 2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis, Seasons with Birds, page 50:

     The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.

2. (slang) A man, fellow. [from the mid-19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 24:

     The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.

   • 2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels

     "Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.

3. (Britain, US, Australia, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
   • 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

     And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[2]

     The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.

   • 2017, David Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company.

4. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Girlfriend. [from the early 20th c.]
5. (slang) An airplane.
6. (slang) A satellite.
   • 1988, Satellite communications. Jan-Oct. 1988

     Deployment of the fourth bird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the Inmarsat first generation system

   • 1992, Cable Vision

     Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat II bird?

   • 2015, John Fuller, Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer ?ISBN, page 384

     In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly.

7. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
   • 1494–1536, William Tyndale, Bible, Matthew 8:20

     The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.

8. (Britain, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
9. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

   Synonym: the finger

   • 2002, The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.

     For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.

   • 2003, James Patterson and Peter De Jonge, The Beach House, Warner Books, page 305,

     Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one.

10. A yardbird.

Synonyms

• (member of class Aves): fowl, avian
• (man): chap, bloke, guy
• (woman): broad, chick, dame, girl, lass
• See also Thesaurus:woman
• See also Thesaurus:girl

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:bird

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• birb
• burd
• chirp
• ornithic
• ornithology
• squawk
• tweet
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:Gestures/middle finger

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
2. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     These day-owls. That are birding in men's purses

Etymology 2

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. (slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

Synonyms

• (prison sentence): porridge, stretch, time

Translations

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bird”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• bird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aves on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Aves on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• bird at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• drib

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish junco (“reed, rush”), from Latin iuncus (“reed, rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yoy-ni-. Doublet of juncus and junk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???ko?/
• Rhymes: -??k??
• Hyphenation: jun?co

Noun

junco (plural juncos or juncoes)

1. Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow.
2. (obsolete) The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic.

Hyponyms

• blue snowbird, snowbird (Junco hyemalis)
• dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis hyemalis)

Derived terms

• dark-eyed junco

Related terms

• juncaceous
• Junco
• juncous

Translations

References

Further reading

• junco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

junc?

1. dative singular of juncus
2. ablative singular of juncus

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin iuncus.

Noun

junco m (plural juncos)

1. reed, rush

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay jong.

Noun

junco m (plural juncos)

1. (nautical) junk (a Chinese ship)

Descendants

• ? English: junk (or via Dutch jonk)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xunko/, [?x??.ko]
• Rhymes: -unko

Etymology 1

From Latin iuncus. Cognate with English junk.

Noun

junco m (plural juncos)

1. reed, rush

   Synonyms: junquera, carrizo, caña

Derived terms

• junquillo

Descendants

• ? English: junco
• ? Translingual: Junco

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese junco, from Malay jong.

Noun

junco m (plural juncos)

1. (nautical) junk (a Chinese ship)