3/1: College slang The ‘belt chaser’ walks with a ‘bird’ to the ‘birdcage (a dormitory for women students).Ī. 4/3: De guy is married, but he gets stuck on a birdie what’s playin’ at one of de t’eaters. Hoyt A Trip to Chinatown Act II: Have a bird and a bottle and go home! Loves of Venus 16: I found my birdie safe between the sheets.Ĭ.H. Lander Little Gerty I ii: Don’t talk like that, my little birdie-my darling! 181: An’ as for that ere Jule, if she isn’t a perfect bird-ee, then I wouldn’t say so! Thompson Chronicles of Pineville 81: A pretty pair of birds, really. Satirist (London) 27May 171/3: Colonel Sibthorp is considerably annoyed at his beautiful bird, as he calls her to whom he is so faithful a swain. 118/1: Times have been no less prejudicial to the Cyprian sisterhood the Bird of Paradise which used to take its flight in the celestial regions of the Pantheon was seen hopping in the vicinity of Golden-square.Įgan Life in London (1830) 47: A sporting phrase for a ‘bit of nice game,’ kept in a preserve in the suburbs. Sedley Bellamira II i: When I came back the Bird was flown, nor could I learn any News of her. Shirley School of Complement II i: O my Bird, my Chicke, my Doue.Ĭ. Brome Northern Lasse IV v: Ha my Bird, my Chick! Kiss me. Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I ii: This Bird’s my own. Scott Poems (1821) 40: My lady, Lord, thow gaif me for to hird, W’in myne armes I nureiss on the nycht Kissing, I say, my bab, my tendir bird, Sweet maitresse, lady, lusse, and lusty wicht. (b) ( also bird of paradise) a young woman, a girlfriend a mistress.Ī. ‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 54: E’s got this sweet little business, pays off better’n any bird and it don’t talk back. Orton Loot Act I: I’d like to run a brothel I’d have two Irish birds. Norman Fings I i: Rosey and Betty, his particular ‘birds’, are having a hard time on account of the new ‘Street Offences Act 1959’. Richards Old Soldiers Never Die (1964) 106: There were always young ladies soliciting I was never foolish enough to go with one of those birds.į. Swell’s Night Guide 36: Many of the finest of the Oxford-street birds flutter in here nightbirds, but very few green ones among them. n.p.: A Flock of Scared Birds a dozen of Miller’s harlots running as if the d-l was after them. Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 5 Mar. 25/1: I Saw P-rs, the medical student walking with a dickey bird of the lowest feather. Clarke Every Night Book 163: It is the resort of young bloods on the look out for a spree, and ‘birds of paradise,’ in gaudy plumes, seeking to lure the estrays of the night to their nests.Ĭrim.-Con. As she was very snug in her next in Portland -street she was seized by three greater birds of prey, namely catchpoles. 119/2: A few days ago, a melancholy accident happened to the little bird. 3: The third was a Savoy-Bird, well skill’d in Confidence and the depth of Pockets. of Don Quixote Pt 2 V i: Bird, right thou art the bird of Night: Come, I’ll go with thee by thy broad Face and toothless Gums I know thee. 101: He being jealous of his fine Bird (not without cause) was frightned because she sung the tune of Horn-fair most odiously.ĭ’Urfey Comical Hist. Taylor St Hillarie’s Teares 5: Covent-Garden, long Acre, and Drury Lane, where thoses Doves of Venus, those Birds of youth, and beauty (the wanton Ladies) do build their nests. Jonson Devil is an Ass II ii: O, bird, Could you do this? ’gainst me! and at this time now! Whetstone Mirrour for Magestrates of Citties (2nd edn) C4: Lechery was held no sin, nor chastity, vertue: ruffens were honored ruffens, bawdes and suche other brothel birds, were made senators, yea and the basest persons were married to noble women.ĭekker Belman of London D3: The second Bird of this fether is a Dell, and that is a yong wench, ripe for the Act of generation. Nice Wanton Biiii: I have caught two birds, I will set for the dame, / If I catch her in my clutch, I will her tame.
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