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as in goose
a silly flighty person
those birdbrains who eagerly adopt every fad diet that comes along
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as in moron
a stupid person
some birdbrain left the water running
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Recent Examples of birdbrain
Should former President Trump stop calling Ambassador Haley birdbrain?
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CBS News,
18 Feb. 2024
Some cowardly birdbrain dropping Ku Klux Klan fliers in a quiet, suburban neighborhood may not be earth-shattering news.
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Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2018
Calling someone a birdbrain meant there wasn’t much going on upstairs.
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National Geographic,
15 May 2016
By solving one kind of puzzle that stumped crows, though, the kids may have shown how a human mind treats problems differently than a birdbrain.
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Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2012
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2024
Some cowardly birdbrain dropping Ku Klux Klan fliers in a quiet, suburban neighborhood may not be earth-shattering news.
—
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2018
Calling someone a birdbrain meant there wasn’t much going on upstairs.
—
National Geographic,
15 May 2016
By solving one kind of puzzle that stumped crows, though, the kids may have shown how a human mind treats problems differently than a birdbrain.
—
Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birdbrain
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The list goes on, though; roast goose and crispy fried pigeon star on the menu at The Legacy House, and stylish couples swish into DarkSide for live jazz even on most evenings.
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Organic cotton and goose down in three firm varieties mean there’s a suitable fill for stomach, back, and side sleepers alike.
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Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
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My favorite depictions of this city know its real history is too cuckoo to capture sincerely; straight reenactments make the production of 35mm masterpieces look as piddly as Shrinky Dinks.
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One page has handbag ideas, and, true to form, there is a cuckoo-clock purse, a pyramid purse, a purse shaped as a well.
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
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Problem is, even people who know baseball don’t know baseball, which makes betting on baseball stupid.
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There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl.
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Being a gent or a supplicant wasn’t the same as being a fool, though.
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Don’t let the simple style fool you, though, because the ultra-soft foam insoles provide solid arch support.
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But no, sillies: Bradley is white, famous and pretty — no jail time for her!
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It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.
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Occasionally, some nitwit will play chicken with the offending lane changer, get in front of him or her, and stop the car in the middle of the road to continue with verbal and nonverbal critique of the offender’s driving skills.
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In each show, the two nitwits would set out on some caper, which would inevitably go horribly wrong, leaving them broke, or tied up, or in jail, or hanging over a cliff, or some other situation of great peril.
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“Birdbrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birdbrain. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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