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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).

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Origin:
1785–95; bird + -ie
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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).
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