birdbrain
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
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Definition of birdbrain
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(colloquial)Someone who is not intelligent.
“That birdbrain just drove right through three rows of traffic cones and into the bushes.”
“Comedienne Carol Channing, 29, admitted that a grave personal problem had grown out of her playing the role of birdbrained Lorelei Lee in Broadway’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. People seemed to be convinced that she is a birdbrain offstage, too: “I won't say that people actually think I’m just two steps removed from outright idiocy, but they do seem to have adopted a protective attitude towards me...””
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Etymology
From bird + brain, implying that birds, having small brains, are unintelligent (although this is untrue for many birds).
Words you can make from birdbrain
87 playable · top: RIBBAND (12 pts)
Best play ribband 12 points8-letter words
1 word6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
14 words4-letter words
29 words- BARB 8 pts
- BAND 7 pts
- BARD 7 pts
- BIDI 7 pts
- BIND 7 pts
- BIRD 7 pts
- BRAD 7 pts
- DARB 7 pts
- DRAB 7 pts
- DRIB 7 pts
- ABRI 6 pts
- BANI 6 pts
- BARN 6 pts
- BIRR 6 pts
- BRAN 6 pts
- BRIN 6 pts
- RABI 6 pts
- ARID 5 pts
- DARN 5 pts
- IRID 5 pts
- NARD 5 pts
- NIDI 5 pts
- RAID 5 pts
- RAND 5 pts
- RIND 5 pts
- AIRN 4 pts
- INIA 4 pts
- RAIN 4 pts
- RANI 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
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