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Definition of Budgie
1. Noun. Small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Generic synonyms: Parakeet, Paraquet, Paroquet, Parrakeet, Parroket, Parroquet
Group relationships: Genus Melopsittacus, Melopsittacus
Definition of Budgie
1. Noun. (informal) A budgerigar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Budgie
1. a small parrot [n -S]
Medical Definition of Budgie
1. Abbreviated form of budgerigar. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Budgie
Literary usage of Budgie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Real Deal: What Young People Really Think about Government, Politics and by Kate Oakley, Tom Bentley (1999)
"(Cardiff) budgie: Maybe if we had gone to Trinity House [naval school] we ...
budgie: Discipline. (Hull) Lisa: I wouldn't have minded getting the cane when ..."
2. Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ou, Histoire par ordre by Joseph Fr. Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud (1820)
"... de vingt vaisseaux, aborda en Afrique, s'empara de budgie, d'où '' ' b. ...
battit les troupes almorávides , et reprit budgie. ..."
3. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"... or to tight; as by Hob- iso.sis. dispersing letters to that purpose, full of
reflections, and insinuat- \ budgie.8' illg a desire to fight, &C. ..."
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