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birdlime

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1. birdlime - Noun

2. birdlime - Verb

Meaning

An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.

To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime. Emil Cioran

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