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Birdie   /bˈərdi/   Listen
Birdie

noun
1.
(golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole.
2.
Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.  Synonyms: bird, shuttle, shuttlecock.
verb
1.
Shoot in one stroke under par.



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"Birdie" Quotes from Famous Books



... entrenchment of the Turks, "Lone Pine," was stormed yesterday evening by the Australian 1st Brigade; a desperate fine feat. At midnight Birdie cabled, "All going on well on right where men confident of repelling counter-attack now evidently being prepared: on left have taken Old No. 3 Post and first ridge of Walden Point, capturing machine gun: progress satisfactory, though ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... birdie mother sat In her soft nest one day, Teaching her little fledglings, three, ...
— Home Lyrics • Hannah. S. Battersby

... look at the eggs from day to day we will not be able to see any change in them, but the change is inside the shell where we cannot see it. Every day there is an alteration taking place, and the egg gradually is being transformed into the little bird. After a while, when the right time comes, the birdie will peck a tiny hole in the shell. This will keep growing larger and larger until it is large enough for the birdie to come ...
— Confidences - Talks With a Young Girl Concerning Herself • Edith B. Lowry

... meeting with the deceased at which a certain other woman was alleged to have been present. The matter did not seem of much interest or importance, but the youth in question seized a yellow pad and excitedly wrote in blue pencil, "Find Birdie" (the other lady) "at any cost!" This he handed to a detective, who hastened importantly away. It is to be hoped that "Birdie" was found speedily and in ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train

... I got spies out and they say he's been in every cafe in town looking for me. Wants to make up. Watch little birdie here. If he comes monkeying around me again I'll pick up one of these and knock him clean out from under his hat. Trifler. How I ever fell for him certainly gets me. How anybody could love a press agent or ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey


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