Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a small bird.
- Golf. a score of one stroke under par on a hole.
- a shuttlecock.
verb (used with object), bird·ied, bird·ie·ing.
- Golf. to make a birdie on (a hole).
noun
- golf a score of one stroke under par for a hole
- informal a bird, esp a small bird
verb
- (tr) golf to play (a hole) in one stroke under par
“little bird,” 1792, from bird (n.1) + -ie. As golf slang for “a hole played one under par,” by 1908, perhaps from bird (n.) in American English slang sense of “exceptionally clever or accomplished person or thing” (1839).