nightbird

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Noun[edit]

nightbird (plural nightbirds)

  1. Alternative spelling of night bird.
    • 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin Classics (2001), page 30:
      This bar was practically in my quartier and I had many times had breakfast in the nearby working man’s cafe to which all the nightbirds of the neighborhood retired when the bars closed.