birkie

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[150-6] A birkie is a conceited, forward fellow.

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  1. noun A man, especially one who is spirited and energetic.
  2. adjective Lively; spirited; cocky.

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  • That snow draws thousands to the Hayward-Cable area, where this year the good snow has registrations for the American Birkebeiner, www. birkie.com, running ahead of the expected 7,000 racers. —  Madison.com - top
  • While I may be a granola eating birkie-wearing tree hugger, Harper is a neo-con who lives and dies by the market. —  Planet Atheism
  • A lord, no doubt, may be a "birkie" and a "coof," but may not a ploughman be so too? —  Robert Burns
  • Milk 'll dae fine for yon birkie: he micht be gled tae get onything, sorning on a respectable manse every ither week You will pardon our humble provision"--this is how the Rabbi prepared Carmichael; "we have taken my worthy Abigail unawares, and she cannot do for us what in other circumstances would be her desire. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
  • Milk'll dae fine for yon birkie: he micht be gled tae get onything, sorning on a respectable manse every ither week You will pardon our humble provision"--this is how the Rabbi prepared Carmichael; "we have taken my worthy Abigail unawares, and she cannot do for us what in other circumstances would be her desire. —  Rabbi Saunderson
 

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  1. Possibly akin to Middle English berken, to bark, from Old English beorcan.

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  1. Scots, also spelled birky; cf. birk.
 

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