Slang for any generic airplane, the word bird also meaning an airplane.
It is pronounced like other aircraft designations are pronounced: bee-one-are-dee.
"What kind of airplane is that?"
"A B-1RD."
"What kind of airplane is the other one?"
"A B-1RD."
"How can two completely different planes have the same name???"
"To me they are all the same, they're all birds. Go ask a pilot; I fly a desk for the Air Force."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)