1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BIRD-WITTED [adj]
hare-brained; not solid or stayed.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Bird-witted in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).