Hileko Hitza: Txoriburu

September’s word of the month is….

Txoriburu(n.)

bird-brain, scatterbrained

Submitted by a student

I learned this word from my dad. He claimed that there were no curse words in Euskara, and that "txoriburu" was about as bad as it gets. Knowing my father and the Basque sheepherders I grew up around, I have my doubts about his story…

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