birdbrain
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She was partial to furs; she preferred writing with quill pens; in her Greenwich Village apartment, she held festive parties for the Birdbrain Club, her friends’ answer to the Algonquin Round Table.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017
Birdbrain is a typically intense Buffalo Tom performance, co-produced by Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis in 1990 and showcasing one of the best riffs ever.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011
It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff�as befits an April Fools' piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he’d be hidden by the fence the Sports Family shared with the Birdbrain Family—all those birdhouses might actually help.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Birdbrain, thought Mrs. Frisby, and then recalled what her husband used to say: The size of the brain is no measure of its capacity.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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