| 单词 | whooping owl |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhooping owl whooping owl n. an owl with a hooting rather than a wailing or screeching call; cf. hoot owl n. at hoot n.1 4.In later use chiefly North American.Cf. simple descriptive use in quot. a1717 at sense A. 2. ΚΠ 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 70 Ulula,..the whooping Owl, or Gilhooter. 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 261 The tree-frogs, whipperwills, and hooping-owls, serenade the inhabitants every night with music. 1911 L. P. Elliott Early Hist. Nashville 165 One evening about dusk he heard a big whooping-owl. 1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down (1987) 194 We call them whooping owls because they whoops. < as lemmas |
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