nonbirder

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noun

One who is not a birder.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounnonbirder (plural nonbirders)

plural nonbirders

  1. One who is not a birder.

    Travel to out-of-the-way places that many nonbirders find unappealing can be especially attractive to those who pack binoculars and field guides in their carry-on luggage.

    2009 March 17, Liz Galst, “On Business, but Checking Out the Local Airborne Fauna”, in New York Times
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    Tell a birder that you are trying to break a birdwatching record and their first question will be something like `Where do you plan to get Buff-breasted Button-quail?' Confide to a non-birder and they invariably ask, `How can you prove it?'

    2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 25

Origin

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Chicago

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