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bird⋅ie

[bur-dee] noun, verb, bird⋅ied, bird⋅ie⋅ing.
–noun
1. a small bird.
2. Golf. a score of one stroke under par on a hole.
3. a shuttlecock.
–verb (used with object)
4. Golf. to make a birdie on (a hole).

Origin:
1785–95; bird + -ie
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bird·ie   (bûr'dē)   
n.  
  1. Informal A small bird.

  2. Sports

    1. One stroke under par for a hole in golf.

    2. See shuttlecock.

tr.v.   bird·ied, bird·ie·ing, bird·ies Sports
To shoot (a hole in golf) in one stroke under par.
shut·tle·cock   (shŭt'l-kŏk')   
n.  A small rounded piece of cork or rubber with a conical crown of feathers or plastic, used in badminton. Also called bird, birdie.
v.   tr. shut·tle·cocked, shut·tle·cock·ing, shut·tle·cocks
To throw or send back and forth like a shuttlecock.
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Word Origin & History

birdie 
golf slang for "play a hole one under par," 1956, earlier bird (1911), from bird (1) in Amer.Eng. slang sense of "exceptionally clever or accomplished person or thing" (1839).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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