bird stuffer

noun

bird stuffer

noun
1

Obsolete A person who prepares bird specimens; a bird taxidermist.

  • My Portuguese bird-stuffer Fernandez now insisted on breaking his agreement and returning to Singapore; partly from homesickness, but more I believe from the idea that his life was not worth many months' purchase among such bloodthirsty and uncivilized peoples.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 275:

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