The word 'bird' to mean a young woman (a British usage widely deplored) does not come in any way from some analogy to birds.
Rather it comes from 'burd', meaning maiden or lady, derived from the Old English 'byrde', meaning well-born and perhaps conflated with, and certainly related to, 'bride'.
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Yeah. They say that _now_.
And I suppose there's no relation between 'bird' and 'chick' and the Spanish 'chica'?
When ever I hear a Brit man use that word referring to women, I cringe. When North American men use "Mother ***k, it also makes me cringe....what a put down. Right out of the gutter.
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