Bird : nm Un bird is an often edible animal belonging to the class of warm-blooded tetrapod vertebrates, with a body covered with feathers, the front legs of which are wings, the hind legs of the legs, the head of which has a horny beak devoid of teeth, and which is generally suitable for flight.
Individual: who is this bird?
Gender of small child: Take out your bird!
It's a funny bird! (coconut, sparrow, zebra).
A rare bird: an irreplaceable, amazing person.
Bird's head or brain: thoughtless person.
To the birds: very good, excellent.
An ugly bird: an unpleasant person.
Take the bird to the nest: surprise someone at his home.
To the birds: very beautiful, very good, excellent, perfect.
Giving / saying bird names to someone: insulting them.
Bird in its cage: virginity.
Losing your bird: losing your virginity.
Have your birds: have your period.
Remove the bird from the nest: practice the coitus interruptus.
Bird
- The expression a "rare bird": A person with exceptional qualities - A person impossible to find (because they are looking for too many qualities or skills).
While the current form of the expression, often used ironically, dates from the first half of the XNUMXth century, in the XNUMXth century we used a rare bird, translation from latin rara opinion (in terris), version that we found in the satirical Latin poet Juvénal, in one of his Satires. A rare bird is employed by Jean de La Fontaine, previously, in the XNUMXth century, we already found this same idea in oysel which is not often found.
It must be said that the term bird, from the fourteenth century, was used to designate an individual; we find it in our expression as well as in a funny bird.
With exactly the same meaning, we also find the expressions blue Bird or white merle (at Marivaux, for example).