bird n.3
1. (mainly US) the penis; thus jerk one’s bird, to masturbate; get one’s bird in a splint, to get into (painful) difficulties; gobble someone’s bird, to fellate; how’s your bird? a phrase of greeting.
![]() | Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 14: Here’s the nest in the bush, and the bush’s best friend, / And the bird who his life in that nest loves to spend. | |
![]() | Honest Fellow 207: Toasts [...] The bird in the hand and then in the bush. The bird in the bush and not in the hand. The bird in the bush and two hard by. | |
![]() | ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Nobby Songster 47: The bird in the hand and then in the bush. | |
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Memoirs of Madge Buford 60: I lay there with two birds in my hand and sure of having them both in my bush. | |
![]() | ‘Lou Gehrig Goes West’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 118: Put that bird in my gilded cage. | |
![]() | Pinktoes (1989) 32: You ain’t the first woman to be screwed by a bird. | |
![]() | One of the Casualties 227: Maybe you got our bird in a splint, you numbskull [HDAS]. | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular. | |
![]() | Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In [TV script] How’s your bird, baby? [HDAS]. | |
![]() | Blood Brothers 46: He hangs aroun’ gettin’ laid an’ jerkin’ his bird. | |
![]() | Requiem for a Dream (1987) 50: Marion hungrily gobbling his bird. | |
![]() | Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘Don’t tell a soul or I’ll cut your little bird off’. |
2. (US) the vagina.
![]() | Chosen Few (1966) 163: Sounds like she didn’t give you that bird yet. | |
![]() | Choirboys (1976) 290: I kneel there and look right at her bird. |
3. (US gay) fellatio.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular. |
In compounds
the vagina.
![]() | Choirboys (1976) 56: Someone shoulda plugged my old lady’s birdbath and I wouldn’t be in this fix. |
see separate entry.
1. a sodomite.
![]() | ‘Citadel Gloss.’ in AS XIV:1 25/1: bird taker n. A sodomite. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. (US gay) a male prostitute.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 111: a male prostitute [...] bird taker (obs). |
In phrases
(US gay) a man’s crotch in a pair of expensive trousers.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 31: bird in a gilded cage man’s crotch clothed in expensive trousers. |
(US) usu. of a prostitute, to fellate.
![]() | Lang. Und. (1981) 117/2: way down south in Dixie. The act of ‘Frenching’ a man. Also cop a bird. | ‘Prostitutes and Criminal Argots’ in|
![]() | Sex Variants. | ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry|
![]() | Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 9: cop a bird (v.): The act of fellation. (Slang.). | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular. |