Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1961, member of the U.S. anti-communist John Birch Society, founded 1958.
Wikipedia
Bircher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Bircher (born 1981), British long-distance swimmer
- Ernest Bircher (born 1928), British rower
- Eugen Bircher (1882-1956), Swiss politician
Usage examples of "bircher".
Karen Bircher, who at the age of forty-one had gone from being a powerhouse career gal to a mom at home in the space of fifteen months.
We saw the two institutions as variations on each other,-doubtless the Birchers did not see it this way.
GOP machinery fall into the hands of the Birchers and the right-wing crazies for a few months.
Council on Foreign Relations, long regarded by the Birchers as an Illuminati hotbed.
Karen Bircher, who at the age of forty-one had gone from being a powerhouse career gal to a mom at home in the space of fifteen months.
Why, for instance, hadn't the 'lay volunteer' the aliens wanted turned out to be a Bircher, a Black Muslim, a Communist or a Rotarian - in short, some kind of fanatic who purported to deal with the real world - instead of a young man who was fanatic only about imaginary creatures called hobbits?
We leave him free in all other matters--as he leaves us free to be atheist or Jew, heterosexual or homosexual, John Bircher or Communist.
Five hours in total darkness with three women and a John Bircher who were all sure that the Bomb had fallen.
I don't mean that she enjoyed inflicting pain on her men, like dear Lola with her hairbrush, or the elfin Mrs Mandeville of Mississippi, who wore spurred riding boots to bed, or Aunt Sara the Mad Bircher of the Steppes - my, I've known some little turtle doves in my time, haven't I just?