Fwd: boobook: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Oct. 4, 2014

boobook \BOO-book, -book\ noun 1. a small, reddish-brown spotted owl, Ninox boobook, native to Australia and New Zealand. Quotes It has large, staring eyes that are brilliant yellow, not greenish-toned as in Southern Boobook, which usually displays obvious dark markings (rather like black-eye bruises) around the eyes that are absent in the larger Barking Owl. -- Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg, Birds of Australia, 2014 Origin Boobook comes from Dharuk, a now-extinct Australian aboriginal language. The word is said to be imitative of the sound the bird makes.

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