Bird

Bird

(British)

1. A girl. A very common term in the late 1950s and 1960s, it is now somewhat dated and considered offensive or patronising by most women. The word was first a 19th-century term of endearment, ultimately from Middle English, in which bird could be applied to young living things in general, not merely the feathered variety.

2. A prison sentence. From the rhyming slang birdlime: time.

He's doing bird in Wandsworth.

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