Plural of burdie; multiple little birds in Scottish or Northern English dialect.
The plural form of 'burdie,' created by adding '-s' to the diminutive singular. This shows how inflectional suffixes work on top of derivational ones in English morphology.
Burdies is three layers deep in linguistic history—it starts with an Old English 'brid,' gets a Scottish pronunciation, adds a diminutive suffix, and then adds a plural, showing how morphology accumulates over centuries!
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