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- noun A young bird.
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- noun A young
bird .
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mollusque commented on the word birdikin
". . . having been hunting all day, the hunger mother had returned with her prey to her wide-mouthed birdikins."
--W. M. Thackeray, 1861, Lovel the Widower, p. 99
December 19, 2008
mollusque commented on the word birdikin
The familiar little brown birdie that pecks up crumbs in our streets should have been invested with some endearing and homely quality, and a vice might have been more safely settled on the shoulders of the robin, as a rare visitant, and, by-the-by, a most quarrelsome tike of a bird. But the sparrow, poor birdikin is a proof that a name is a reality; he is a victim of sound, and owes a perpetual infamy to the inexorable requirements of rhyme.
--D'Arcy W. Thompson, 1868, Wayside Thoughts, p.
December 19, 2008