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birdlime
[ burd-lahym ]
noun
- a sticky material prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, and smeared on twigs to catch small birds that light on it.
verb (used with object)
- to smear with birdlime.
- to catch or capture, as with birdlime:
to be birdlimed by flattery.
birdlime
/ ˈbɜːdˌlaɪm /
noun
- a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
verb
- tr to smear (twigs) with birdlime to catch (small birds)
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Example Sentences
In effect both father and son became fast to the birdlime figure, when they were stung to death by ten thousand bees.
Yet this is that wherewith the world is taken, and runs mad to gaze on—clothes and titles, the birdlime of fools.
Such was Biddy Tibs; and, though possessed of no mean wealth, her avarice clung like birdlime to her.
The former consists of shavings from old documents, and the latter of birdlime for new converts.
It is the birdlime with which the devil catches many a female and male soul.
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