Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bird course

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: bird -course
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In an educational institution, a course which is regarded as particularly easy.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

"One of the most popular targets for criticism has been the credit system, Rutledge said, "because the public has the impression that students are just taking a bunch of bird courses—I wish they'd even tell me what a bird course is.""
"Clarke stumbled into music by way of a high school course he took to raise his grades. "Music was a bird course. I had more interest in math, science, and women", he divulged."
"Forty-five years ago, a McGill University commerce student named Seymour Schulich was looking for a bird course to bolster his grades and came upon a prime candidate — business history."

Etymology

Possibly referring to the small size of bird's brains (compare birdbrain). In the movie Sister Act 2, a bird course is referred to as being a course one can "fly right through," a reference to the course being easy to pass.

Usage

Canadian usage

Inflected Forms

bird courses (plural)

Questions

What does bird course mean?: In an educational institution, a course which is regarded as particularly easy.
Where does bird course come from?: Possibly referring to the small size of bird's brains (compare birdbrain). In the movie Sister Act 2, a bird course is referred to as being a course one can "fly right through," a reference to the course being easy to pass.

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