Word birds

[JoeP]

This has been bugging me. We have "legal eagles" and "culture vultures". I'm sure there must be plenty of other bird phrases applied to people - not necessarily rhyming - but I can't think of any.

So?

[Leesifer]

Wise as an owl? Eats like a gannet?

Or did you mean just two words, like yours?

[JoeP]

I mean a phrase of adjective + bird name. "Wise owl" would work. And "gannet" is quite a commonly used descripton! But rhyming pairs would be a serious plus.

[Leesifer]

What about lovey-dovey?

[fragment]

http://www.northshorecity.govt.nz/images/waste-minimisation/tidy-kiwi-logo.gif

[Leesifer]

Lame Duck!

[JoeP]

Half a point to Lees. I think lovey-dovey is two adjectives.

Half a pixel to Fragment for cuteness, but I deny that's a familiar phrase.

[Sock Puppet]

Sitting duck

War hawk

Gloryhole oriole (okay, I just made that one up)

[fragment]

but I deny that's a familiar phrase.It is in New Zealand. Old campaign from the 70s that entered the local lingo, it was resurrected last year. Google it
and see.

[Legs]

Cooked Goose!

[livius drusus]

Gloryhole oriole (okay, I just made that one up)

Made up or not, that one's gonna be hard to beat. :giggle:

[Leesifer]

:woohoo: I got half a point.

* Leesifer swans around.

[Legs]

Proud Peacock

[Ymir's blood]

Worry birds


And "gannet" is quite a commonly used descripton!
I don't like them. They wet their nests.

[JoeP]

Now we're getting somewhere. Lame duck & sitting duck are gen-u-ine.

OK, frag ... half a pixel and a plate of potato skins, then.

[fragment]

mmmm... potato skins
:kiwibird:

[Legs]

Early Bird

[Legs]

Can I get half a point for 'ruffled feathers'?

[Legs]

Goose stepping

[Legs]

pigeon-toed

Where are my points? :waiting:

[TomJoe]

mmmm... potato skins
:kiwibird:


Did the kiwi say that, or fart it?

[Petra]

Silly goose.

Sparrow's fart.

Chicken. (as in 'skeered')

Parrot. (as in 'parroting')

Old crow. (As in the lady who lives next door to me).

Eat crow.

[Legs]

chicken choking

[Petra]

mmmm... potato skins
:kiwibird:


Did the kiwi say that, or fart it?


We blow it out our rear.

[Legs]

luna chick :giggle:

[Legs]

hawk eyed

or eagle eyed

[Legs]

ugly duckling

[Petra]

luna chick :giggle:


:fly2:

[Legs]

goose bumps

[Legs]

counting chickens

[Legs]

wildgoose chase


no one else playin' ? :sadnana:

[Crumb]

Your's do not describe persons, Legs.

[Legs]

Yes they do. You think I'm talking about a pigeon toed moose?

Silly Goose! :glare:

[Crumb]

Ok I meant your last three.

[Dingfod]

loony bird

wet hen

chicken shit

lucky duck

[Legs]

Ok I meant your last three.

I was getting desperate :P

[livius drusus]

Loosey goosey? Or am I relegated to the no points for adjectives back of the bus?

[Dingfod]

randy gander

peckerwood

bird brain

raven haired

hawk nosed

chicken little

[ceptimus]

Craven raven
Lush thrush
Fit tit

(Okay - I made those up)

Here's a few that are used of people, but they're not double-barrelled

Blackbird
Grouse
Duck
Cock
Cock-sparro' (as in me old...)
Hawk
Merlin
Swift
Parrot
lovebirds
Gannet
Goose (usually a silly goose)
Swan (ballerinas)
Night owl

[Dingfod]

Night owlYou beat me to it, I was just coming back to post that one.

My coworker said his brother used to call environmentalists: eagle squeezers

[Legs]

Here's one for all you husbands

Hen Pecked :rollpin:

[Dingfod]

bird legs

chicken livered

yellowbellied sapsucker

hot chick

stool pigeon

[Dingfod]

jive turkey

bobbin' robin

[Legs]

bobbin' robin
never heard of bobbin' robin - just Rockin' Robin

[Dingfod]

Bobbin' Robin (http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/mg/art/film/9806/980618-robin.html)

[Legs]

Jay Walker :giggle:

[Dingfod]

fledgling [whatever]

old coot

[Dingfod]

spring chicken

[Dingfod]

Jay Walker :giggle:Is that someone's name?

[Legs]

Jay Walker :giggle:Is that someone's name?

:glare:

[JoeP]

lucky duckGood, good ... some of your others I've never heard of

[JoeP]

(Okay - I made those up)That was very obvious...
Night owlExcellent!

[JoeP]

Silly goose.Good one
luna chick Now you get some points!

[Dingfod]

lucky duckGood, good ... some of your others I've never heard ofOkay, loony bird should've been goony bird (http://www.tfd.com/goony+bird). Maybe the rest are just American colloquialisms, but because I know you're not a fledgling net surfer I find it hard to believe you haven't heard of someone being called chicken shit (http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Chicken+shit) or a peckerwood (http://www.tfd.com/peckerwood) or a female referred to as a hot chick (http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Hot+Chick). Bird brain (http://idioms.tfd.com/bird-brain) is an old insult implying a person is stupid. Chicken-livered (http://www.tfd.com/chicken-livered) means cowardly, and is often coupled with another of the same connotation, yellowbellied sapsucker (http://www.tfd.com/yellow-bellied+sapsucker). A stool pigeon (http://www.tfd.com/stool+pigeon) is an informer, a term often used in old 1930s gangster films. A jive turkey (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jive+turkey) is 70s slang for a person who is full of shit, doesn't know what they're talking about, ask lisarea about the useage of that term. A spring chicken (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spring+chicken) is a young person, but the negative of that phrase is often used referring to an old coot (http://www.tfd.com/old+coots), e.g. That old coot is no spring chicken.

[Sock Puppet]

Ever notice how "spring chicken" is always used negatively? I have heard "He/She is no spring chicken," but I have NEVER heard "He/She is a spring chicken."

[JoeP]

I had never heard of "peckerwood" and I didn't make any connection to "woodpecker"! But it must be an American thing - I have never heard of a person being called a woodpecker. "Chicken shit" (and chicken livered, to a lesser extent) is global but isn't a noun phrase - it's not a direct metaphor. "Hot chick" doesn't count, imo: "chick" doesn't refer to a baby hen but is a standalone word for girl in its own right (whether or not it derives from the baby hen, as it seems to, or Spanish chica).

The others fly. :giggle:

[Legs]

How about cock eyed? :wave:

[Leesifer]

Being from London, I could be a cock-knee!

[JoeP]

:rolleye2: