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BIRD-WITTED

Definition: BIRD-WITTED

BIRD-WITTED

Adjective

1. Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: BIRD-WITTED

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Slang in 1811

BIRD-WITTED. Inconsiderate, thoughtless, easily imposed on. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: BIRD-WITTED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BIRD-WITTED

Specialty definitions using "BIRD-WITTED": BIRD-WITTED. (references)

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Modern Translations: BIRD-WITTED

Language Translations for "BIRD-WITTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

frittagh (banal, brainless, frivolous, inconstant, trifling), eddrym (airy, airy material, benign, empty, empty as head, feint, flighty, light, lightweight, shallow, slight, weak, weak as blow). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ird-wittedbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BIRD-WITTED"

Words rhyming with "BIRD-WITTED" (pronounced 'Bird"-wit`ted'): Absinthiated, Acetated, Aculeated, Adfiliated, Adnubilated, Affectionated, After-witted, Aluminated, Alveated, Ammoniated, Annodated, Anserated, Antimoniated, Antiquated, Aquilated, Ariled, Arillate, Arllated, Asteriated, Beef-witted, Blunt-witted, Brecciated, Calceated, Calculated, Camisated, Cancellated, Cannulated, Carbonated, Casemated, Castellated, Cellulated, Cinque-spotted, Clavellated, Contourniated, Convoluted, Cravatted, Decucuminated, Dentilated, Disconsolated, Dull-witted, Eye-spotted, Ferruginated, Fibrillated, Figurated, Flammulated, Floriated, Fluorated, Folliculated, Foraminated, Foveolated. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BIRD-WITTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-i-i-r-t-t-w"

-3 letters: birdied, bittier, dirtied, wittier.

-4 letters: bedrid, bidder, birded, birdie, bitted, bitter, tidbit, tidied, tidier, widder, widdie, witted.

-5 letters: bided, bider, bidet, biter, bride, britt, debit, didie, dried, rebid, redid, teiid, tided, tired, titer, titre, tribe, tried, trite, twier, weird, wider, wired, wited, wried, write.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BIRD-WITTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 52 44 2D 57 49 54 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01010010 01000100 00101101 01010111 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#82 &#68 &#45 &#87 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0052 0044 002D 0057 0049 0054 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3643523815574354543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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