Birdlike

Word BIRDLIKE
Character 8
Hyphenation bird like
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Birdlike"

What do we mean by birdlike?

Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird

Term used to describe an individual who is 'fly', like a bird. Prominently used in Chris Brown's 2007 single "Kiss Kiss." Urban Dictionary

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The word "birdlike" in example sentences

Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383). ❋ M. Leone Bracker (1901)

He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

Agatha is small, and kind of birdlike, and she carries her purse around and shows you where everything is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a little still, but gay, with a kind of birdlike detachment; "_le grand-père_" stocky, wooden, planting his huge feet rather wide apart and regarding his companion, the frosted trees, and the whole wide world, with his humorous stare. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

"I thought perhaps on my home planet I was some kind of birdlike creature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He held the mirror out, and I could see the pinched birdlike face of Viola Klemp examining the magic mirror with some other people. ❋ Amanda Marrone (2011)

And their ship-burner daughters with their passing-sweet voices, virgin and birdlike, but only spoken of in pale phrases by the few sailors who have heard them and lived— I was one of them once. ❋ Jerry Ratch (2011)

T. W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer highlighted the encounter of Odysseus with the Sirens, which are usually portrayed as female and birdlike enchanters, as the critical episode in this tale.44 The goddess Circe warns Odysseus to avoid “the enchanting song” of the Sirens and “their meadow starred with flowers.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

It screeched, a contained, very birdlike squawk, and chills spread up my arm. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

The melody resumes, while the lines of the first three solo cellos delicately weave around one another, until the section ends with the solo cello soaring birdlike to a sustained high E over concluding pizzicato chords. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

The one constant is Mary, who in her fluttery, birdlike way - and through the distorting lens of a perpetually full wine glass - shows a weakness for disastrously misreading casual kindness and winking jokes. ❋ Ann Hornaday (2011)

But this creature did not care who saw him or his strange, birdlike legs; his only garment was a glittering armored mesh that covered his torso, leaving his head and limbs bare. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

Corrag, the vile, birdlike creature accused of witchcraft, appears to be the only witness, and so he swallows his revulsion -- "Any word, even a witch's, is a better word than none" -- and agrees to hear the entire story of her life to learn its shocking final episode. ❋ Ron Charles (2010)

He knew that whatever she did — her quick generosities, her hot enthusiasms or angers, her birdlike caressing ways — was unbelievably sincere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our college-aged waitress was what used to be called a little slip of a thing, thin, tiny, pretty, birdlike, and twittery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hap noticed that one of the long, birdlike toes was missing. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

Why is you hating on my [anatomy]? It's birdlike / yeah you heard right, Girl I'm the king so that means [I'm fly] -Chris Brown, [2007] ❋ Jghostcoast2coast (2011)

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