budgie
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈbʌdʒi/
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periquito
- The bright green budgie fluttered around the room, exploring its new home.
- a little budgie
- four budgies
So it's, it's meant to look like you're smuggling a budgie in the Speedo.
- So it's, it's meant to look like you're smuggling a budgie in the Speedo.
- We had we had cockatoo, we had budgies and we had a pet monkey.
Examples
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After school, she often sits with her budgie on her shoulder.
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I would like to know what a budgie is.
Blog text (18) -
Thanks for the budgie pictures.
Blog text (18) -
What color is your budgie?
Blog text (18) -
Bob went to the budgie cage.
Fiction book (2001) -
Dear Makayla, my budgie is green and it can talk!
Blog text (18) -
The budgie chirped in his cage.
Fiction book (1992) -
What is a budgie?
Blog text (18) -
I bred budgies, rabbits, whippets.
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Mugford and McComisky (1975) found that a group of elderly people who were given budgies showed greater improvement in their attitudes toward people and their own psychological health than before they owned the budgies.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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1.8
A small thin bird with a long tail often kept as a pet
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8.1
A small green parakeet from Australia often kept as a pet
A small Australian parakeet often kept as a pet with bright feathers
A small Australian parrot often green in the wild and kept as a colorful pet
A small parakeet from Australia often green and yellow that people keep as a pet
A small Australian parrot often bright green with black and yellow spots that people keep as a colorful pet
A small Australian parrot often green with black and yellow markings
A group of small Australian parrots that includes the budgerigar often kept as a pet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Budgie is a short, friendly form of budgerigar, a name that likely comes from an Australian Aboriginal language for the small 'parakeet' of Australia. That's why budgie today means the small Australian parakeet people keep as a pet.