birdman

birdman (plural birdmen)

1. A man who works with birds.
2. (informal) An aviator.
3. A mythological creature that is part man and part bird.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:

     The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.

• birdwoman

• man-bird