birdseed n.
1. as food.
(a) chocolates or other sweets [play on the attraction of SE birdseed to a bird n.1 (1b)].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 23: Birdseed: Chocolate, sweets: — something nice for the ‘Bird’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 122: Wait till I eat my birdseed. |
(b) any breakfast cereal seen as resembling birdseed.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Linguistic Concoctions of the Soda Jerker’ in AS XI:1 42: BIRDSEED. Cereal. | |
| , | | DAS. |
| in You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 53: Breakfast: Birdseed mush. |
(c) (US) any food.
| CB Slanguage. |
2. (US) rubbish, nonsense; thus as adj.
| ‘Guns At Cyrano’s’ in Red Wind (1946) 211: I’ve been getting threats. Maybe it’s a lot of birdseed. | |
| On the Waterfront (1964) 113: O.K. O.K. Without the bird seed. | |
| Long Season 75: Smith might have been excused for cursing his luck. If he cursed. Which he doesn’t; although he said ‘bird seed’ once, I recall. | |
| in Law Unto Themselves 238: Or, if I chose to be a lawyer, I wouldn’t need to be a mere ambulance chaser, shyster, or birdseed wiseguy. |
3. (US teen) an unpopular individual.
 | Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (PA) 15 Jan. 8/6: Birdseed — Another word for ‘Drip’. |