birdikin

English

Etymology

From birdie or birdy +‎ -kin.

Noun

birdikin (plural birdikins)

1. A young bird.
   • 1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC:

     Mrs. Prior and her basket were gone when we repaired to the drawing-room: having been hunting all day, the hungry mother had returned with her prey to her wide-mouthed birdikins.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “birdikin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)