A bird, especially a round one — 'birb' — and the record's entry for the misspelling that made ornithology cute. A big bird is a 'borb', a bird in flight a 'birb' at speed, and a very round one a 'floof'.
The record notes 'birb' has a subreddit with a million members and a taxonomy stricter than most field guides, and that 'borb' is the one for a bird that has fluffed itself into a sphere.
Sighting in a physical newspaper — Birb in a lifestyle column, in quotation marks, with a definition in parentheses. It has left the internet.
Personal note for the archive: I have used Birb unironically at least twice this week. Reporting this honestly because the record depends on people admitting it.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
