owl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Middle English howle, oul, oule, owle, owlle, from Old English ūle, from Proto-West Germanic *uwwilā, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (“owl”), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *up- (“to cry out”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots oul (“owl”), Saterland Frisian Ule (“owl”), West Frisian ûle (“owl”), Cimbrian aul (“owl”), Dutch uil (“owl”), German Eule (“owl”), Low German Uul (“owl”), Luxembourgish Eil (“owl”), Vilamovian aojł (“own”), Yiddish אײַל (ayl, “owl”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ugle (“owl”), Faroese ugla (“owl”), Icelandic uggla, ugla (“owl”), Norwegian Nynorsk ugla, ule (“owl”), Swedish uggla, uv (“owl”); also Bulgarian вопъл (vopǎl, “cry, howl, scream”), въпия (vǎpija, “to weep, yell”), Czech úpět (“to howl, wail”), Russian вопи́ть (vopítʹ, “to howl, scream, yell”), вопия́ть (vopijátʹ, “to appeal; to scream, yell; to lament, wail”), вопль (voplʹ, “cry, scream, wail”), Serbo-Croatian ва̀пити, vàpiti (“to cry out; to scream”), Slovene vpíti (“to scream, yell”).
Inflected forms:
form: owls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
pos: noun
examples: A group of owls is called a parliament.
gloss: A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An owl pigeon.
pos: noun
gloss: A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.
pos: noun
Related words: hoot
to-whit, to-whoo
whoo
who
hoo
hoohoo
Derived words: Acadian owl
as wise as an owl
bare-legged owl
barn owl
barred owl
bay owl
blind as an owl
boobook owl
boreal owl
brown owl
buffy fish owl
burrowing owl
burrow owl
Cosmic Owl
disc owl
disk owl
drunk as a boiled owl
drunk as an owl
eagle owl
eagle-owl
elf owl
Eurasian eagle owl
Eurasian pygmy owl
Eurasian scops owl
fernowl
fishing owl
fish owl
flammulated owl
gnome owl
great grey owl
great horned owl
hawk owl
hawk-owl
hoot owl
hoot owl shift
hoot owl trail
horned owl
hornowl
ivy owl
jar-owl
Lapland owl
laughing owl
little owl
long eared owl
long-eared owl
monkey-faced owl
mottled owl
night owl
night-owl
northern hawk owl
owlbear
owl bus
owl-butterfly
owl butterfly
owl clover
owldom
owler
owlery
owlet
owl-eyed
owl-faced monkey
owlfish
owlfly
owlful
Owlglass
owl hoot
owl hoot trail
owling
owlish
owlishly
owlishness
owlism
owl jug
owlless
owl-light
owl light
owllike
owl-like
owl monkey
owl moth
owl-moth
owl parrot
owl pigeon
owl-swallow
owl train
owly
Pel's fishing owl
powerful owl
pygmy owl
rain owl
red owl
Richardson's owl
rufous owl
saw-whet owl
scops owl
scops-owl
screech owl
screech-owl
sea-owl
sea owl
shivering owl
short-eared owl
shriek owl
silver owl
snowy owl
Soumagne's owl
spectral owl
spotted eagle-owl
spotted owl
squinch owl
striped owl
stuffed owl
superb owl
tawny owl
Tengmalm's owl
Ural owl
wereowl
western barn owl
white owl
wise as an owl
wood owl
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