Birdy Terms! (Adapted from owl terms in Legends of the Guardians)

General birdy things

• Churr - Bird laughter, to laugh.
• Glaux - generic term for higher being, used in exclamation. Like, "good glaux!".
• Avipoppen - bird dolls made from down and molted feathers, for chicks, and also to send off on special ceremonies into the sea on a raft to send off bad luck away with it. From owlipoppen, owl dolls.
• Gadfeather - Birds that travel from one region to the next with no planned destination and no real home.
• Yeep - Incapacitating shock, the wings lock, the bird loses its instinct to fly. "Going yeep."

Deeper things

• Ga - great spirit. Not The Great Spirit, but, having great spirit. Like, a tree has Ga, a place has Ga. Maybe like Kami?
• Lochinvyrr - Code of honour, deep understanding, between hunter and hunted.
• Shatter - to cause a person to become massively disoriented and become incapable of sorting out emotions and feelings, and is vulnerable to delusions. Sometimes, even losing their sense of self

Sky things

• Deep Gray - just before dawn, when black has faded but the glow of the sun at the horizon isn't there yet. Known to humans as Nautical Twilight.
• First Lavender - early dawn, or late dusk, (perspective reversed depending on whether you're nocturnal or not) when the horizon is coloured with the glow of the sun, but the sun isn't actually risen yet, or has completely fallen beneath the horizon. Known to humans as Civil twilight.
• Twixt time - dawn, right when the sun is peeking over the horizon.
• Dwenk - Waning, of the moon, when it becomes smaller. "Dwenking moon", "Dwenking of the moon".
• New - Waxing, of the moon, when it grows. "Newing moon", "newing of the moon".
• Thermals - Warm updrafts
• Gutters - Main trough of flowing air in a strong wind
• Scuppers - the edge of the gutters, where winds spill over in turbulent shredded currents
• Baggy wrinkles - The above-mentioned turbulent shredded currents
• Swillages - Where the scuppers gradually meet still air

Talk-things

• Frink - Rude word that means to severely irritate, as in "it frinks me off"
• Give it a blow! - exclamation, lighten up!
• Put a mouse in it! - exclamation, shut up, but in a kinder way. From stuffing a mouse into the beak so that a bird can't talk, but also is sated by the tasty treat.
• Gleek - Goofing/messing around. Like "gleeking about".
• Gollymope - depressed state, or someone in such a state. "She's a real gollymope", "she's go the gollymopes."
• Goodlight - Like good morning, but with the kind of quality of "goodnight".
• Racdrops - exclamation. A surprised kind of cussword. Like human s-bombs. Meaning racoon droppings.
• Ryb - a teacher.
• Sprink  - exclamation, the worst taboo cussword. Very rare and severe, worse than human f-bombs.
• Yoiks - crazy, nuts, out of one's mind. "Are you yoiks!?"