where did the name of the birdie come from? i've heard that shuttle was used because it was a term for the motion of the shuttle - back and forth between players, and that cock is from the birdie being made from feathers. any real facts behnid this? Coops
i would say that since it's made of bird feather and moves in the air like a bird, so thats how they might have come up with birdie.
I think coops is trying to ask for the origin of the name shuttlecock here here's what wiki says: A shuttlecock can also be called a "birdie", "bird", "cock" or "shuttle". The "shuttle" part of the name was probably derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a loom, and the "cock" from the feathers of the traditional shuttlecock, referring to a bird's crest.
The word shuttlecock is an English word and you can find it in a dictionery. A birdie is just a little bird, which is sometimes used, wrongly, by some players to mean a shuttlecock.
well of course it is... what i was asking for was the origins of the word 'shuttlecock' why was it named this.. noluckjim seems to have discovered the source that i did.. the only other thing i've found is this.. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=shuttlecock&searchmode=none
