Meaning

1 senses
  1. (colloquial)Someone who is not intelligent.

    That birdbrain just drove right through three rows of traffic cones and into the bushes.

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More definitions
  • a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought

Translations

6 languages
Русский
someone who is not intelligent:
Deutsch
someone who is not intelligent:

Origin

From bird + brain, implying that birds, having small brains, are unintelligent (although t

From bird + brain, implying that birds, having small brains, are unintelligent (although this is untrue for many birds).

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Forms

plural: birdbrains
Singularbirdbrain
Pluralbirdbrains

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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