birdbrain
Americannoun
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The other embraced the insult, saying: “We’re an out-of-date, birdbrain of a store!”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
McCarthy may have a reputation, intellectually, as something of a birdbrain.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2023
To be fair, it's entirely possible that, at one point, Musk wasn't a total birdbrain.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2022
I believe it was an industry blogger who called me a birdbrain.
From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2017
Why is calling someone a birdbrain not the insult we thought it was?
From National Geographic
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