The Bird

Just like most words in the English dictionary, "bird" can have several definitions:

1. A two-legged winged animal that has wings, a hard beak, and a body covered in feathers
2. Fowl eaten as food
3. Kind of person (e.g. "she's a nosy old bird")
4. Airplane or seacraft
5. A fuck-you (e.g. give somebody the bird)
6. Something worthless or unacceptable (e.g. "for the birds")
7. A murder victim ("kill two birds with one stone")

This weekend, I learned another definition of a bird. We were out at a bar in Fire Island, and this girl we met, Debra, was asking my friend Shira about M, a cute guy we were both friends with. Irrelevant side note: Shira and I met M in Club Med a few years ago.

Debra asked Shira if she had seen M's "bird" to which Shira replied, "No, I didn't know he had a bird. But he talks about his fish a lot."

Sweet, innocent Shira was referring to M's pets. Not so innocent Debra was referring to "his pet." Ha!