birdingn.

Brit.

/ˈbəːdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbərdɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s birdinge, 1500s birdynge, 1500s– birding.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bird n., -ing suffix¹; bird v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < bird n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < bird v. + -ing suffix¹.In sense 1c probably short for mutton-birding n.; compare slightly later bird v. 1b.

a. The action or sport of catching wild birds. Now archaic or historical.

ΚΠ

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Captura Captura auium, Birdynge.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 122 An other exercise of Hunting, which is termed Fouling, or Birding.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iii. 63 The great pleasure hee took in his youth in birding.

1739 M. Browne Piscatory Eclogues (rev. ed.) viii. Argt. in Poems Various Subj. 115 Two Swains who are exercised in Birding, while they are watching their Nets, amuse themselves with repeating each of them a Song.

1889 A. H. Bullen Musa Proterva 124 Love and birding are alied, Baits and nets alike they have.

2012 J. R. Gillis Human Shore ii. 57 Archaeologists have found huge shell middens but also evidence of fishing and birding.

†b. figurative and in extended use. The action of searching for someone or something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun]

fowling1413

lowbelling1581

birding1602

bird-catching1687

waterfowling1702

wild-fowling1874

1602 ‘A. Philalethes’ Answere Fraudulent Let. G. Blackwels sig. D4 We should rather haue been commended of them: but we goe not a birding for humane praise, he shall bee allowed whom God shall commend.

a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 54 Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 1 A Birding thus early.

c. Australian and New Zealand. The practice or activity of catching mutton-birds for food or sale; = mutton-birding n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > catching specific bird

birding1872

mutton-birding1872

moa-hunting1905

1872 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1871 4 354 A ‘Waka Pahi’..was the sort of canoe used to go to the islands, birding, etc.

1900 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 2 920 Some of the families or tribes of Maoris hold the right of ‘birding’ on certain islands.

1944 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 11 May 4 Next to whaling and sealing, ‘birding’ is the oldest industry in the [Bass] strait.

2017 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 2 May Maynard's father didn't take him muttonbirding..until he was 15, because birding season..clashed with the school term.

†2. The action of taking aim, as if at a bird. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > aiming

birdinga1678

vizy1720

training1812

sighting1884

a1678 A. Marvell Loyal Scot in Chorus Poetarum (1694) 67 He..entertains the while his time so short, With birding at the Dutch, as if in Sport.

3. The activity or hobby of birdwatching. Recorded earliest as a modifier.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > observing or watching

birding1891

leaf peeping1966

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > observing or watching > specific

stargazing1928

skywatch1952

birding1956

gricing1968

grice1971

owling1984

1891 Boston Daily Advertiser 13 Oct. 5/4 ‘I image you're not going out to Middlesex Fells studying birds these days...’ He had been speaking of certain birding excursions of mine.

1898 Times (Washington D.C.) 4 Sept. 16/3 She becomes as great an enthusiast at birding as she is at golf and bicycling.

1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xxxiii. 356 Bill did more pure birding than the rest of us.

1986 Bird Watching May 9/4 Membership of a bird club can open the door to the whole wonderful world of birding probably quicker than by any other means.

2021 @HappyPixr 29 May in twitter.com (accessed 7 June 2021) Lakes are good places to go birding because you get access to multiple habitats in and around the lake.

Compounds

General use as a modifier (in senses 1 and 3).

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [adjective]

birding1589

1589 Will of Ralph Manwaring in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 12 To Robt Leftwiche my birdinge peece with a little horne flaske.

1673 London Gaz. No. 751/4 A plain Birding Gun, in a Red Leather Case.

1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador I. 273 A few fish greatly resembling tench, (which I killed with an Esquimau birding-dart under the stern).

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 126 To crack off his birding-piece at a poor covey of partridges.

1979 E. Wilson Titi Heritage 38 Over the years since 1864 they had controlled their islands during the birding seasons with stern and strict discipline.

2012 Muscat (Oman) Daily (Nexis) 15 Oct. At Rustaq..there were about 78 arms,..and a very interesting percussion ultra-small bore birding gun.

2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 62/3 Farmoor has been the centre of birding attention recently with this beautiful black-throated diver gracing one of our high-profile county birding spots.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	birding
释义	birdingn. Brit. /ˈbəːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbərdɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s birdinge, 1500s birdynge, 1500s– birding. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bird n., -ing suffix¹; bird v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < bird n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < bird v. + -ing suffix¹.In sense 1c probably short for mutton-birding n.; compare slightly later bird v. 1b. 1. a. The action or sport of catching wild birds. Now archaic or historical. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Captura Captura auium, Birdynge. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 122 An other exercise of Hunting, which is termed Fouling, or Birding. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iii. 63 The great pleasure hee took in his youth in birding. 1739 M. Browne Piscatory Eclogues (rev. ed.) viii. Argt. in Poems Various Subj. 115 Two Swains who are exercised in Birding, while they are watching their Nets, amuse themselves with repeating each of them a Song. 1889 A. H. Bullen Musa Proterva 124 Love and birding are alied, Baits and nets alike they have. 2012 J. R. Gillis Human Shore ii. 57 Archaeologists have found huge shell middens but also evidence of fishing and birding. †b. figurative and in extended use. The action of searching for someone or something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] fowling1413 lowbelling1581 birding1602 bird-catching1687 waterfowling1702 wild-fowling1874 1602 ‘A. Philalethes’ Answere Fraudulent Let. G. Blackwels sig. D4 We should rather haue been commended of them: but we goe not a birding for humane praise, he shall bee allowed whom God shall commend. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 54 Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 1 A Birding thus early. c. Australian and New Zealand. The practice or activity of catching mutton-birds for food or sale; = mutton-birding n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > catching specific bird birding1872 mutton-birding1872 moa-hunting1905 1872 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1871 4 354 A ‘Waka Pahi’..was the sort of canoe used to go to the islands, birding, etc. 1900 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 2 920 Some of the families or tribes of Maoris hold the right of ‘birding’ on certain islands. 1944 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 11 May 4 Next to whaling and sealing, ‘birding’ is the oldest industry in the [Bass] strait. 2017 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 2 May Maynard's father didn't take him muttonbirding..until he was 15, because birding season..clashed with the school term. †2. The action of taking aim, as if at a bird. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > aiming birdinga1678 vizy1720 training1812 sighting1884 a1678 A. Marvell Loyal Scot in Chorus Poetarum (1694) 67 He..entertains the while his time so short, With birding at the Dutch, as if in Sport. 3. The activity or hobby of birdwatching. Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > observing or watching birding1891 leaf peeping1966 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > observing or watching > specific stargazing1928 skywatch1952 birding1956 gricing1968 grice1971 owling1984 1891 Boston Daily Advertiser 13 Oct. 5/4 ‘I image you're not going out to Middlesex Fells studying birds these days...’ He had been speaking of certain birding excursions of mine. 1898 Times (Washington D.C.) 4 Sept. 16/3 She becomes as great an enthusiast at birding as she is at golf and bicycling. 1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xxxiii. 356 Bill did more pure birding than the rest of us. 1986 Bird Watching May 9/4 Membership of a bird club can open the door to the whole wonderful world of birding probably quicker than by any other means. 2021 @HappyPixr 29 May in twitter.com (accessed 7 June 2021) Lakes are good places to go birding because you get access to multiple habitats in and around the lake. Compounds General use as a modifier (in senses 1 and 3). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [adjective] birding1589 1589 Will of Ralph Manwaring in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 12 To Robt Leftwiche my birdinge peece with a little horne flaske. 1673 London Gaz. No. 751/4 A plain Birding Gun, in a Red Leather Case. 1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador I. 273 A few fish greatly resembling tench, (which I killed with an Esquimau birding-dart under the stern). 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 126 To crack off his birding-piece at a poor covey of partridges. 1979 E. Wilson Titi Heritage 38 Over the years since 1864 they had controlled their islands during the birding seasons with stern and strict discipline. 2012 Muscat (Oman) Daily (Nexis) 15 Oct. At Rustaq..there were about 78 arms,..and a very interesting percussion ultra-small bore birding gun. 2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 62/3 Farmoor has been the centre of birding attention recently with this beautiful black-throated diver gracing one of our high-profile county birding spots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1565
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