bird·brain

(bûrd′brān′)

n. Slang

A person regarded as silly or stupid.

bird′brained′ adj.

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birdbrained

adjective

Slang. Given to lighthearted silliness:

empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly.

Informal: gaga.

Slang: dizzy.

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A SUPPOSEDLY conservative US Senator from Missouri -- a man who claims to believe in limited government, understand the First Amendment to the Constitution and respect our nation's traditions of free enterprise -- insults all three with a birdbrained bill to establish a "fairness doctrine" for social media companies.

A GOP Senator's Attempt To Police Internet Speech

Yes, Guinness Records are meant to be quirky, but this one, quite frankly, is just birdbrained. And after the longest minute and 15.72 seconds of my life has finally elapsed, not a single egg is standing upright on the table.

Did I break records? No, I was pants; MIRROR'S BID TO GET INTO THE BIG BOOK

Worried onlookers gathered to watch the birdbrained beastbeing saved after it became tangled in wire above the McDonald's restaurant on the corner of Nun Street and Grainger Street in Newcastle city centre.

Flappy bird freed after passers-by raise alarm

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