cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yack
Forms: form: yaks
form: yakking
form: yakked
form: yakked
form: yack
Etymology: Apparently an onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds […]
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: And in the last few days Clair's boundless capacity to yak about herself while Melissa listened had turned Chip against her, too.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
examples: text: She'll feel better when she yaks.
ref: 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave):
glosses: To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yack
Forms: form: yaks
form: yack
Etymology: Apparently an onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: Sluggsy said indifferently, ‘You’ll be wised up come morning. Meanwhiles, howsabout shuttin’ that dumb little hashtrap of yours? All this yak is bending my ear. I want some action.
ref: 1962, Ian Fleming, chapter 9, in The Spy Who Loved Me:
text: The sudden head-down butt jabbed into someone’s face, is a highly effective way of putting a stop to his yack.
ref: 1983, Nicolas Freeling, The Back of the North Wind, →ISBN:
glosses: A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.
examples: text: Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.
ref: 1951, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, Cartoonist:
glosses: A laugh.
glosses: Vomit.
Related terms: yacket
yackety-yak
yakfest
yakky
yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yack
Forms: form: yaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 약 (yak).
Senses: glosses: a traditional Korean flute used in court music
yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yack
Forms: form: yaks
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A kayak.
yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yack
Forms: form: yaks
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.
ref: 2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid:
glosses: cognac.
lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: llama
Forms: form: lamas
Etymology: From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Senses: glosses: A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
Derived terms: lamahood
lamaic
lamaist
lamaite
lamaserai
Related terms: lamaism
lamaistic
lamasery
Dalai Lama
Panchen Lama
Tashi Lama
lamani
lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: llama
Forms: form: lamas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of llama.
lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: llama
Forms: form: lamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lama (“lamé”).
Senses: examples: text: The Wedding Dress, composed of a most magnificent silver lama, on net, over a rich silver tissue slip, with a superb border of silver lama embroidery at the bottom, forming shells and bouquets; above the border a most elegant falling, tastefully designed, in festoons of rich silver lama, and finished with a very brilliant roleau^([sic]) of lama.
ref: 1816, William Hone, Hone’s authentic account of the Royal Marriage, page 38:
glosses: lamé (fabric with silver or gold threads woven in)
eagle owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡəl ˈɑʊl/
Forms: form: eagle owls
form: eagle-owl
Senses: glosses: Any of various Old World large owls of the genus Bubo, especially Eurasian eagle owls (Bubo bubo), that have prominent ear tufts.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bubo bubo
word: great eagle owl
Related terms: horned owl
llama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.mə/
ipa: /ˈlɑmə/
ipa: /ˈjɑmə/
ipa: /ˈlɐː.mə/
ipa: /ˈlaː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: lama
Forms: form: llamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.
Senses: glosses: A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Derived terms: berserk llama syndrome
cama
drama llama
lamoid
llamacide
llamalike
llamanaco
llamoid
llama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.mə/
ipa: /ˈlɑmə/
ipa: /ˈjɑmə/
ipa: /ˈlɐː.mə/
ipa: /ˈlaː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: lama
Forms: form: llamas
Etymology: From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Senses: examples: text: He was, as it were, a great Llama, shut up in a holy of holies, inscrutable, invisible, inexorable,—not to be seen by men's eyes or heard by their ears, hardly to be mentioned by ordinary men at such periods as these without an inward quaking.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
glosses: Archaic form of lama.
guanaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/
Forms: form: guanacos
form: guanacoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.
Senses: glosses: A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.
Synonyms: word: Auchenia huanaco
Hypernyms: camelid
Hyponyms: english: a young guanaco
translation: a young guanaco
word: chulengo
Derived terms: llamanaco
Volapük
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/
ipa: /ˈvɒləˌpjuk/
ipa: /volaˈpyk/
Forms: form: Volapuk
Etymology: From Volapük Volapük.
Senses: examples: text: ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.
ref: 1897 April 23, A. F. B. Crofton, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 834:
text: The first practical constructed language was the south-west German Pastor Schleyer's Volapük from 1879; its complicated grammar and irregular vocabulary made learning difficult, however. The most successful has been Esperanto, devised by the Warsaw ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887, that today can count some one million speakers.
ref: 2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A history of language, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
tonight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnaɪt/
ipa: /ðəˈniːt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: to-night
form: to-nite
form: tonite
form: t'night
Etymology: From Middle English tonyght, to niȝt, from Old English tō niht.
Senses: examples: text: I want to party tonight!
text: I had a wonderful time with you tonight.
text: I had a dreadful nightmare last night; I hope I sleep better tonight.
glosses: During the night following the current day; during the evening of today.
examples: text: Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,
With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
And others more, going to seek the grave
Of Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night
On your suggestion.
ref: 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, act 4, scene 2, page 165:
text: I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar,
And things unluckily charge my fantasy;
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Last night.
tonight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnaɪt/
ipa: /ðəˈniːt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: tonights
form: to-night
form: to-nite
form: tonite
form: t'night
Etymology: From Middle English tonyght, to niȝt, from Old English tō niht.
Senses: examples: text: Tonight is the night.
text: I have high hopes for tonight.
glosses: The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
Derived terms: target for tonight
yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yŏt
ipa: /jɒt/
enpr: yät
ipa: /jɑːt/
ipa: /jɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: yachts
Etymology: Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
text: You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?
text: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
examples: text: “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 meters, as well as three swimming pools. […] The market is projected to reach a value of $10.2 billion by 2025 as an increasing amount of yachts measuring longer than 24 meters are ordered, and designers are going all out to ensure their concepts are bigger and better than the competition.
ref: 2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN:
glosses: Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
Derived terms: aeroyacht
gigayacht
ice yacht
land yacht
maxi yacht
megayacht
miniyacht
motor yacht
motoryacht
MY
sailing yacht
steam yacht
SY
sand yacht
superyacht
yachtboard
yacht club
yachtdom
yachtee
yachter
yachtful
yachtie
yachting
yachtist
yachtless
yachtlike
yachtman
yachtperson
yacht person
yacht rock
yachtsfolk
yachtsman
yachtsperson
yachtswoman
yachtwear
yachty
yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yŏt
ipa: /jɒt/
enpr: yät
ipa: /jɑːt/
ipa: /jɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: yachts
form: yachting
form: yachted
form: yachted
Etymology: Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
Senses: glosses: To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
xylophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: xylophones
Etymology: From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
Derived terms: concert xylophone
metal xylophone
stone xylophone
xylophonist
Related terms: glockenspiel
marimba
sticcado
vibraphone
xylophone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: xylophones
form: xylophoning
form: xylophoned
form: xylophoned
Etymology: From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
Senses: glosses: To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
examples: text: my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
ref: 2002, Amu Nnadi, The Fire Within: Poetry : Includes the Abiola Manuscript:
text: Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.
ref: 2010 October 26, Barrie Summy, I So Don't Do Spooky, Yearling, →ISBN, page 27:
text: The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.
ref: 2015 July 7, Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus, Trollhunters: The Book That Inspired the Netflix Animated Series TROLLHUNTERS!, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:
text: His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.
ref: 2020 August 4, George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus, The Living Dead, Tor Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
X-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɛks ˌɹeɪ/
Forms: form: X-rays
form: x-ray
form: Xray
form: xray
form: Ex-ray
form: ex-ray
form: Ex ray
form: ex ray
Etymology: From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, where X signifies their unknown nature. The chess sense is metaphorical, referring to control passing through a seemingly solid barrier.
Senses: examples: text: X-rays are light with a wavelength between 0.1 and 10 nm.
synonyms: Röntgen radiation
Roentgen-ray
glosses: Short wavelength electromagnetic radiation usually produced by bombarding a metal target in a vacuum. Used to create images of the internal structure of objects; this is possible because X-rays pass through most objects and can expose photographic film.
examples: text: The doctor ordered some X-rays of my injured wrist.
text: And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.
ref: 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A radiograph: a photograph made with X-rays.
glosses: An X-ray machine.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A tactical motif where a piece exerts influence or control over a square, piece, or line indirectly through another intervening piece.
Derived terms: dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
hard X-ray
soft X-ray
X-ray absorbing glass
X-ray astronomy
X-ray binary
X-ray crystallography
X-ray diffraction
X-ray fish
X-ray fluorescence
X-ray microscope
X-ray photograph
X-ray pulsar
X-ray radiation
X-ray specs
X-ray spectacles
X-ray spectrometry
X-ray spectroscopy
X-ray telescope
X-ray tetra
X-ray therapy
X-ray tube
X-ray vision
Related terms: gamma ray
T-ray
X-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɛks ˌɹeɪ/
Forms: form: X-rays
form: X-raying
form: X-rayed
form: X-rayed
form: x-ray
form: Xray
form: xray
form: Ex-ray
form: ex-ray
form: Ex ray
form: ex ray
Etymology: From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, where X signifies their unknown nature. The chess sense is metaphorical, referring to control passing through a seemingly solid barrier.
Senses: examples: text: Of course there was nothing wrong with my left wrist. They X-rayed the wrong arm!
text: 1925, Sidney Coe Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (Doubleday, Page and Company), Act II, page 116.
Both legs broken in the morning. Tibia, fibula, femur, and ischium. X-rayed and set inside of an hour after the accident.
glosses: To take a radiograph of; to obtain an image of using X-ray radiation, especially for the purpose of medical diagnostic evaluation.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Of a piece, to exert indirect influence, by either attacking, defending, or controlling an opponent's or friendly piece through an intervening piece along a rank, file, or diagonal.
X-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks ɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɛks ˌɹeɪ/
Forms: form: x-ray
form: Xray
form: xray
form: Ex-ray
form: ex-ray
form: Ex ray
form: ex ray
Etymology: From X + ray, a calque of German X-Strahl, coined by Wilhelm Röntgen upon his discovery of the rays in 1895, where X signifies their unknown nature. The chess sense is metaphorical, referring to control passing through a seemingly solid barrier.
Senses: examples: text: I had to put my bags through an X-ray scanner at the airport.
text: Who will fly and have X-ray eyes— And be known as the man no bullet can kill?
ref: 1974, Shel Silverstein, “Who”, in Where the Sidewalk Ends, HarperCollins:
glosses: Of or relating to X-rays.
myriad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹi.æd/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹi.əd/
Forms: form: myriads
Etymology: From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
Senses: glosses: Ten thousand; 10,000
glosses: Ten thousand; 10,000
Synonym of decamillennium: a period of 10000 years.
synonyms: word: decamillennium
extra: a period of 10000 years
examples: text: Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
text: O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers / Matchleſs, but with th' Almighty, and that ſtrife / Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 622–624:
text: A myriad of beginnings to her intended discourse darted into her mind; but, as is usual in such cases, she chose the one the very worst suited to her purpose. "I never intend to marry," said she, in a faltering voice.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 239:
text: I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...
ref: 1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I:
synonyms: plethora
bounty
scores
wealth
deluge
glosses: A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
Derived terms: myriaded
permyriad
Related terms: tens of thousands
myriad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹi.æd/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹi.əd/
Etymology: From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
Senses: examples: text: one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 131:
text: "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
ref: 2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", West End Word, 40 (7), p. 8
glosses: Multifaceted, having innumerable elements
raw_tags: modifying a singular noun
examples: text: Earth hosts myriad animals.
text: Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous
raw_tags: modifying a plural noun
Derived terms: myriadly
Related terms: plethora
marsh buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh bucks
form: marshbuck
Senses: glosses: A swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout Central Africa, Tragelaphus spekii
glosses: An antelope found in forests throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Tragelaphus scriptus.
Synonyms: sense: Tragelaphus spekii
word: sitatunga
sense: Tragelaphus scriptus
word: bushbuck
sense: Tragelaphus scriptus
word: bush antelope
kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăngʹ-gə-ro͞oʹ
ipa: /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkaŋɡəru/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəŋˈɡɑru/
Forms: form: kangaroos
form: kangooroo
form: kanguroo
form: kanguru
Etymology: Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
Senses: examples: text: Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].
ref: 1770 August 4, James Cook, Journal:
text: In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
ref: 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:
glosses: A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
glosses: A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
Synonyms: sense: Macropodidae
word: macropod
sense: Macropodidae
word: roo
sense: jacket
word: bunny hug
sense: jacket
word: hoodie
sense: jacket
word: kangaroo jacket
Hyponyms: antelope kangaroo
antilopine kangaroo
banded kangaroo
boxing kangaroo
brush kangaroo
eastern gray kangaroo
eastern grey kangaroo
giant kangaroo
great kangaroo
hare-kangaroo
hare kangaroo
plains kangaroo
rat-kangaroo
red kangaroo
short-faced kangaroo
sooty kangaroo
tree-kangaroo
western gray kangaroo
western grey kangaroo
Derived terms: a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
anti-kangaroo
Australian as a kangaroo
eccentric kangaroo unicycle
fangaroo
forest kangaroo
jerboa kangaroo
kangaroo acacia
kangaroo apple
kangaroo ball
kangaroo-bar
kangaroo bar
kangaroo bear
kangaroo-beetle
kangaroo beetle
kangarooburger
kangaroo care
kangaroo closure
kangaroo code
kangaroo court
Kangaroo Defence
Kangaroo Defense
kangaroo dog
kangarooer
kangaroo-fly
kangaroo-foot plant
kangaroo fucker
kangaroo grass
kangaroo hare
kangaroo-hop
kangaroo hop
kangaroo-hound
kangarooish
Kangaroo Island
kangaroo jerboa
kangaroo justice
kangaroolike
kangaroo meat
kangaroo mother care
kangaroo mother method
kangaroo mouse
kangaroo paw
kangaroo piss
kangaroo pocket
kangaroo-rat
kangaroo rat
kangaroo route
kangaroo's-foot
kangaroo's-foot plant
kangaroo ship
kangaroo-shoot
kangaroo-shooter
kangaroo-shooting
kangaroo skin
kangaroo stoppie
kangaroo-thorn
kangaroo tick
kangaroo ticket
Kangaroo Tour
kangaroo trial
kangaroo unicycle
Kangaroo Valley
kangaroo vine
kangaroo word
kangatarian
musk kangaroo
Olyroos
rat-kangaroo
rat kangaroo
rock kangaroo
roo
Socceroo
tree-kangaroo
tree kangaroo
Related terms: joey
marsupial
wallaby
wallaroo
kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăngʹ-gə-ro͞oʹ
ipa: /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkaŋɡəru/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəŋˈɡɑru/
Forms: form: kangaroos
form: kangarooing
form: kangarooed
form: kangarooed
form: kangooroo
form: kanguroo
form: kanguru
Etymology: Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
Senses: glosses: To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
glosses: To hunt kangaroo.
glosses: To move like a kangaroo.
kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăngʹ-gə-ro͞oʹ
ipa: /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkaŋɡəru/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəŋˈɡɑru/
Forms: form: kangooroo
form: kanguroo
form: kanguru
Etymology: Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).
Senses: examples: text: The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...
ref: 2005, Year Book Australia: 2006, Aust. Bureau of Statistics, page 708:
text: Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.
ref: 2017, Jeff Madura, CHANDRASEKHAR & MADURA KRISHNAMURTI (JEFF & HOQUE, ARIFUL.), Ariful Hoque, International Financial Management with Student Resource Access 12 Months, Cengage AU, page 667
text: Non-resident. bonds. Bonds issued in the Australian market by non-resident entities are known as kangaroo bonds. Figure 8.6 shows that kangaroo bonds represent approximately one-third of non-government bonds outstanding, making them ...
ref: 2018, Ben Hunt, Chris Terry, Financial Institutions and Markets, Cengage AU, →ISBN, page 206:
text: 3.1.2 The Australian dollar in the global bond market An internationalized currency also serves non-residents as a store of value ... borrowers issuing Australian dollar bonds in the domestic market (foreign bonds known as ' kangaroo bonds').
ref: 2009, W. Peng, C. Shu, Currency Internationalization: Global Experiences and Implications for the Renminbi, Springer, →ISBN, page 62:
text: The market is comparatively liquid and the bonds are free of withholding tax if the funds are used overseas. The Commonwealth Bank has largely pioneered the market. It led the first kangaroo issue, a $150million offering by the (South) Korea ...
ref: 1998, Business Review Weekly: BRW:
text: Some onshore markets have competed more successfully than others. Issuance in the Kangaroo bond market (Australian dollar bonds issued onshore by non- residents) soared over the 2002–06 period due to a combination of factors. While a ...
ref: 2010, Susan Black, Anella Munro, Why Issue Bonds Offshore?:
glosses: Of or relating to Australia.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: investments
glosses: Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
wombat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑmˌbæt/
ipa: /ˈwɒm.bæt/
rhymes: -ɑmbæt
rhymes: -ɒmbæt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: wombats
form: whom-batt
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wumbat.
Senses: glosses: Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
glosses: A slow and stupid person; a dullard.
Derived terms: bare-nosed wombat
northern hairy-nosed wombat
southern hairy-nosed wombat
wombat crossing
wombat-headed
wombat trail
koala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kō-ä'lə
ipa: /koʊˈɑː.lə/
ipa: /kəʊˈɑː.lə/
ipa: /ˈkwɑː.lə/
ipa: /kəˈwɑː.lə/
ipa: /kəʊˈɑː.lə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: koalas
Etymology: From Dharug gula or gulawany.
Senses: synonyms: word: Phascolarctos cinereus
word: koala bear
word: native bear
word: native monkey
word: carbora
glosses: A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
Derived terms: koala fucker
koala lemur
Related terms: drop bear
Gundaroo bullock
Phascolarctos cinereus
hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: hunts
Etymology: From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:
glosses: The act of hunting.
glosses: A hunting expedition.
glosses: An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
glosses: A pack of hunting dogs.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: antihunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: bunny hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: canned hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: dog in the hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: drag hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: Easter egg hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: egg hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: fox hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: foxhunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: ghosthunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntboard
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntless
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntlike
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntmaster
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: hunt saboteur
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: Hunt's Cross
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: hunt seat
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntsperson
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: huntswoman
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: Internet hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: in the hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: manhunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: molehunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: on the hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: personhunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: pixel hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: puzzlehunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: scavenger hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: snipe hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: superhunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: trail hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: treasure hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: Wild Hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: witch hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: witch-hunt
sense: Terms derived from hunt (noun)
word: womanhunt
wiki
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭʹkē
enpr: wēʹkē
ipa: /ˈwɪki/
ipa: /ˈwiːki/
rhymes: -ɪki
rhymes: -iːki
homophone: wicky
homophone: weaky
homophone: wickie
Forms: form: wikis
form: wikiing
form: wikied
form: wikied
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Senses: examples: text: To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
text: I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
ref: 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:
text: Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
ref: 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
text: I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
ref: 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:
glosses: To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
examples: text: Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
ref: 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
text: The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
ref: 2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
text: For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
ref: 2008, Robert E. Cummings with Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:
glosses: To contribute to a wiki.
examples: text: The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.
ref: 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2011:
glosses: To participate in the wiki-based production of.
Related terms: .wiki
sukuma wiki
last name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last names
Senses: glosses: Synonym of surname, a person's family name.
synonyms: word: surname
extra: a person's family name
examples: text: In a structure typical for East Asia cultures, last names are usually used as given names. It usually differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common family name
glosses: The last element of a full name, particularly when it could also be given name in East Asian and other cultural traditions.
Derived terms: word: last-name
boomerang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/
ipa: /ˈbuməɹæŋ/
Forms: form: boomerangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.
Senses: examples: text: Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.
ref: 1884, Andrew Lang, “Star Myths”, in Custom and Myth:
text: With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.
ref: 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia:
text: 1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back,
"Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it."
synonyms: kylie
glosses: A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
glosses: A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A boomerang kick.
examples: text: Roll: A live action changing from one color to another. Typically requires dexterity to "crossfade" between two colors in the boomerang with one hand while following with the other.
ref: 2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting:
text: If you are spot one you should push down on the first lever on the boomerang to load frame one. Spot two should do the same with frame five. On the go, both spot ops should run their dowser levers to bring the light up on the target specified by the cue caller.
ref: 2013, John Holloway, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 144:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A device for changing the color of a followspot.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
qualifier: RAF slang
glosses: The early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures.
glosses: A cocktail made with rye whiskey and Swedish punsch.
Derived terms: boomerang baby
boomerang child
boomerang dysplasia
boomerang effect
boomeranger
boomerang kick
boomerang kid
boomeranglike
boomerang pillow
Related terms: frisbee
woomera
boomerang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/
ipa: /ˈbuməɹæŋ/
Forms: form: boomerangs
form: boomeranging
form: boomeranged
form: boomeranged
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."
ref: 1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters:
text: "Oh," they yelled, "you could, eh? Well, let's see you do it, then! Let's see you do it! Let's see you do it! Now!" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmie's humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud.
ref: 1899 November, “"Showin' Off"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 99, number 594:
text: Our future economic success depends on the economy growing faster than government spending. That's why raising taxes would boomerang. Economic growth would slow, revenues would decline, and the budget deficit would swell.
ref: 1985 February 2, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address:
glosses: To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
examples: text: He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.
ref: 1894, Henry Lawson, “The Mystery of Dave Regan”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse:
glosses: To travel in a curved path.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
qualifier: RAF slang
glosses: To abort a mission and return to base early.
Related terms: bounce back
uey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: ueys
form: Uey
form: U-ey
form: Uy
form: U-y
form: uie
form: u-ie
form: Uie
form: U-ie
form: yewie
form: yewy
form: youee
form: youi
Etymology: From U(-turn) + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey.
ref: 1987, Kelly Lawrence, The Gone Shots, US: Franklin Watts, page 280:
text: Barry musta figured Jamie′s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.
ref: 2000, Louis J. Fagan, Angelo, US: Independent Publishers Group, page 324:
text: Since it pulled a U-ey and snapped Fang on the noggin, Barny had been dressing it in a flowery skirt and hat for reasons which are still a mystery.
ref: 2001, Steve Aylett, Only an Alligator, Scar Garden 2010 (The Complete Accomplice), p. 28
text: “[…]Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.”
ref: 2006, Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus, AuthorHouse, page 255:
text: Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.
ref: 2007, Richard Marinick, In For a Pound, US: Justin, Charles & Co., page 59:
glosses: A U-turn.
Derived terms: chuck a uey
hang a uey
Related terms: word: flip a bitch
word: bang a uey
U-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-turns
form: u-turn
Etymology: From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
Senses: examples: text: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
synonyms: uey#Noun
hypernyms: turnaround#Noun
<
turn#Noun
coordinate_terms: three-point turn#Noun
K-turn#Noun
glosses: A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
examples: text: The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
text: Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.
ref: 2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: about-face
flipflop#Noun
flip-flop#Noun
backflip#Noun
turnaround#Noun
hypernyms: turn#Noun
coordinate_terms: left turn#Noun
glosses: A reversal of policy or opinion.
U-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: U-turns
form: U-turning
form: U-turned
form: U-turned
form: u-turn
Etymology: From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
Senses: synonyms: hang a uey#Verb
bang a uey#Verb
flip a bitch#Verb
chuck a uey#Verb
hypernyms: turn around#Verb
<
turn#Verb
coordinate_terms: hang a Louie#Verb
hang a Ralph#Verb
glosses: To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
examples: text: She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.
ref: 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: flip#Verb
flop#Verb
flip-flop#Verb
flipflop#Verb
turn around#Verb
coordinate_terms: come around#Verb
glosses: To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.
cooee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o'(w)ē
ipa: /ˈkuːʷiː/
rhymes: -uːiː
Forms: form: cooees
form: cooey
form: coo-ee
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
Senses: examples: text: Then they heard in the distance the "coo-ee" of a white man, which was instantly answered by another "coo-ee".
ref: 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 32, column 1:
text: I call out, “Coo-ee” with long Coo and short ee like whip-bird call. Everybody in my mob know my cooee. Any one of my mob hear that, they give me cooee back.
I listen.
No cooee come back.
ref: 2002, Andrew Parkin, A Thing Apart, page 195:
text: 2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 309,
Just as I was preparing to write in my exercise book, I heard a cooee. Cooees were not part of the code.
glosses: A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
examples: text: That is not within cooee of 10 per cent; it is much closer to six per cent.
ref: 1996, australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates Australia, volume 207, page 1469:
text: We were carless, in the dark, and no one to help within cooee.
ref: 1999, Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride, page 136:
glosses: A short distance; hailing distance.
raw_tags: with "within"
cooee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o'(w)ē
ipa: /ˈkuːʷiː/
rhymes: -uːiː
Forms: form: cooees
form: cooeeing
form: cooeed
form: cooeed
form: cooey
form: coo-ee
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Look out for snakes,’ said Long Charlie, flourishing his lantern. ‘And don′t all of us be coo-eeing all the time, or when the little chap sings out we shan't be able to hear him.’
ref: 2001, Robert Holden, Nicholas Holden, Bunyips: Australia's Folklore of Fear, page 65:
text: Slipping out of the tail of the dray, I cooeed as loud as I could which was answered.
ref: 2003, Les Hughes, A Young Australian Pioneer: Henry Mundy, page 225:
text: 2006, Saskia Beudel, Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002, in Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006, page 310,
I cooeed back. Another cooee came in what seemed to be a reply. I cooeed again.
glosses: To make such a call.
cooee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o'(w)ē
ipa: /ˈkuːʷiː/
rhymes: -uːiː
Forms: form: cooey
form: coo-ee
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug guuu-wi, adopted into English by white settlers in Australia from 1790.
Senses: examples: text: Cooee! I'm over here!
text: Then, raising her hands to her lips she utters a long, loud, piercing " Cooee ! "
" Coo — ee ! " comes back over the black waters.
ref: 1894, Temple Bar, volume 183, page 587:
text: 2001, June E. Barker, First Platypus, Gaygar—The Little Mother Duck, in Helen F. McKay (editor), Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, page 58,
Gaygar could hear her people cooee out to her, "COOEE, GAYGAR! COOEE, GAYGAR!" they would cry.
glosses: Used to attract someone's attention.
Synonyms: topics: nautical
transport
word: ahoy!
word: hey!
word: oi!
word: yoohoo!
word: hey
handfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handfish
form: handfishes
Etymology: From hand + fish.
Senses: examples: text: An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 69:
glosses: Any of the anglerfishes of the family Brachionichthyidae, which can "walk" on the sea floor using their pectoral fins.
Derived terms: smooth handfish