Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

birthday buddy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: birth-day bud-dy
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who shares the same birthday as another person.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Our lovely son had made his appearance, sharing a birthday with French playright Molière, Welsh actor and musician Ivor Novello and civil-rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. Not a bad pedigree of creative and inspirational birthday buddies. Oh, yes, Google also informs me that the online resource Wikipedia was launched on the very same day as Lukas."
"In other words, the question is not what are the odds of a particular pair of people sharing a birthday but of any pair of people, from all the different possible pairings, being birthday buddies."

Etymology

From birthday + buddy.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

birthday buddies (plural)

Phrases

Catholic twin Irish twin

Frequently Paired Words

Catholic twin Irish twin

Synonyms

birthday twin

Questions

What does birthday buddy mean?: A person who shares the same birthday as another person.
Where does birthday buddy come from?: From birthday + buddy.

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