Meanings
plural birdsitters · alternative bird-sitter
- Someone who birdsits.
When a Del Mar woman goes out, she entrusts her parakeet to only one person, a teen-age girl she hires to stay home with the bird. But the girl's mother won't allow her daughter to be out alone. And that's why a baby-sitter is hired to sit with the bird-sitter while she sits with the bird.
1959 July 31, “All Because of a Bird”, in The Circleville Herald, volume 7, number 179, page 8
Origin
From bird + sitter, modelled on babysitter.
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