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nightbird

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n.1.A person who likes to be active late at night; a night owl.
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Noun1.nightbird - a person who likes to be active late at nightnightbird - a person who likes to be active late at night
night owl, nighthawk
individualist - a person who pursues independent thought or action
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Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human nightbirds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several manners; and where not one of the nightbirds hovering about the sloppy bar failed to discern at a glance in the passion-wasted nightbird with respectable feathers, the worst nightbird of all.
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The middle of the house is a sort of chorus-girl belt, while in the upper rooms there are reporters and other nightbirds.
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