birdie

1. 1.

   (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole

   Broaderscore

   golf

2. 2.

   badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

   Synonymsshuttlecockbirdshuttle

   Broaderbadminton equipment

1. 1.

   shoot in one stroke under par

   Broadershoot

   golf

Other forms of birdie

plural

birdies·

past tense

birdied·

present participle

birdying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about birdie

What does birdie mean?

birdie means "(golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in birdie?

birdie has 2 syllables: bir-die. The stress falls on "bir". In IPA it is /ˈbɝdi/.

What is another word for birdie?

Close synonyms include shuttlecock, bird, shuttle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is birdie a common word?

birdie is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.