birfday

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English

Etymology

From a common confusion of the th sound of Germanic languages with that of the f sound of the Niger-Congo languages among Afro-Americans.

Noun

birfday (plural birfdays)

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    • 2008, Hazel Norris, The Prodigal Father, page 271
      Why don't you make somebody's birfday cake, Rachel?