birdbrain
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- bird-brained adjective
- birdbrained adjective
Etymology
Origin of birdbrain
Example Sentences
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To be fair, it's entirely possible that, at one point, Musk wasn't a total birdbrain.
From Salon
The question is, what are those birdbrains thinking?
From Scientific American
Time to lay the ‘birdbrain’ stereotype to rest forever.
From Nature
Then one day, just before the winter break, I was digging a notebook out of my locker when I heard someone say, “How’s birdbrain?”
From Literature
If they don’t, some of the players are bigger birdbrains than we thought.
From The Guardian
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