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Pet bird (abbr)
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budgie
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Peter Edward Clarke (born 21 August 1957, St Helens ), known professionally as Budgie , is an English drummer . His first recording was with The Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979–96) and the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, short for budgerigar .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors [syn: budgerigar , budgereegah , budgerygah , grass parakeet , lovebird , shell parakeet , Melopsittacus undulatus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
budgie \budg"ie\ n. small Australian parakeet ( Melopsittacus undulatus ) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors. Syn: budgerigar, budgereegah, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet.
Usage examples of budgie.
She flipped her finger into the air and Budgie winged away into the woods.
Muhlenberg kicked the morgue door shut before Budgie could get in line with it.
He knew now that he had been artificially busier and busier as the day wore on, and that it was only a weak effort to push aside the thoughts of Budgie and what might have happened to her.
With that thought came its corollary: Budgie was missing, and if she had been taken care of he, Muhlenberg, was next on the list.
In other words, if Budgie had been taken care of, he could expect some sort of attack too, and quickly.
And he became aware of Budgie looking fixedly at the figure in the door, her face radiant.
Muhlenberg suspected that that was the very first physical contact either he or Budgie had yet received from the creature, and that it was a rare thing and a great compliment.
The budgie twittered in annoyance and flew several feet before landing on a bare knee to continue its foraging.
As he put the budgie back into its cage it crossed his mind that he ought to buy Danny a companion.
A cage of budgies erupted into a bout of squabbling over what appeared to be territorial rights to the perch beside the tiny mirror.
By midafternoon, with about a third of the population having bought BUDGIES and Gaer as a god and a dictator, we had driven all the five hundred sales-robots as nutty as so many machine-tooled fruitcakes.
Wade looked at the budgies and wondered how such a toy of a creature could ever have existed in the wild.
Dublin there's people sitting down to their tea now, watched by their cats and their budgies and their dogs.
Yet he didn't keep budgies or go along with superstitions or worship the sun: he was part of an organisation that killed people.
In every room here there are talking budgies, and in the almirahs I find moth‑eaten dresses and used brassieres!