Other Meanings
- In modern times with the disuse of bird liming, the word "birdlime" is sometimes misunderstood and used wrongly to mean bird faeces, from its appearance as white splashes.
- "Birdlime" is also proverbially sticky, hence it may be used to refer to a "sticky-fingered person" or some such.
- The Cockney rhyming slang "doing bird" (time spent in prison) is thought to come from "bird-lime", time.
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Famous quotes containing the word meanings:
“Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy.” “Lithe” is the same as “active.” You see, it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.”
—Charlton Laird (b. 1901)