birdie
To score a birdieTo score a birdie.
» A little birdie told me you were there.
Сорока на хвосте принесла мне, что ты здесь. — Balamax
CM · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(intransitive)To score a birdie.
Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.
(transitive)To score a birdie at (a hole).
Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.
- shoot in one stroke under par
Examples
6 sentencesA little birdie told me you were there.
ruСорока на хвосте принесла мне, что ты здесь. — Balamax
The birdies had grown up, and had flown away.
deDie Vögelein waren groß geworden und entflogen. — Waldelfe · CC BY 2.0 FR
Yanni is an early birdie.
A little birdie told me.
You know how to make paper pinwheels? I only know how to make little birdies.
Origin
Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
birdies, birdieing, birdied, birdiedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.