Birk vs Biro - What's the difference?
birk | biro |
(Northern English) A birch tree. Cognate with Scots birk.
A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus ).
(British, slang)
A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
* 1993 , , 2008,
(by extension, UK, AU, NZ) Any ballpoint pen.
* 2007 , , The Anatomy of Wings ,
(by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
* 2011 , Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Completely Spotless ,
As nouns the difference between birk and biro
is that birk is (northern english) a birch tree cognate with scots birk while biro is bureau.birk
English
Noun
(en noun)- (rfdate) The silver birk . - .
References
* ----biro
English
(wikipedia biro)Noun
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- Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.
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- Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.
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- ‘My very creative 2-year-old son used my good friend?s white polyester Roman blinds as a canvas,’ says Jacqui. They?re now covered in blue biro'. And although my friend isn?t too bothered by the ' biro , I am! Can you help??
