burd

American  

[burd] / bɜrd /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a young lady; maiden.

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Etymology

Origin of burd

1175–1225; Middle English burde lady, perhaps representing Old English byrde well born

Example Sentences

Th' owd chap pools his watch aat an mak's sure o'th' time when they start, an' away they goa like a burd.

From Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings by Hartley, John

"Flap its wings and all that like a burd?"

From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Burnham, Margaret

"Aw wish aw wor a burd," shoo sang,    Aw nivver could tell why,— For it wod be a waste o' wings    Becoss shoo couldn't fly.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

And he was riding burd alane, On a horse as black as jet; But tho' she followed him fast and fell, 40 No nearer could she get.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

I observed no difference between this burd and those of the same family common to the U States, except that this appeared to be more booted and more thickly clad with feathers.-

From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether