Budgies are easy to distinguish between the sexes because the area above a male’s beak is blue, and the female’s is brown.

This category also includes the word “agender” (without gender), born of a communal reaction ... Clearly some of these terms – “budgie smugglers” for instance – have been around ...

That’s because, swimmers aside, few men these days would be seen in public in the much maligned “budgie smuggler ... the old stereotypes of their gender.