aardvark

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  1. noun A burrowing mammal (Orycteropus afer) of southern Africa, having a stocky, hairy body, large ears, a long tubular snout, and powerful digging claws.

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  • Posted in aardvark, beta invites, facebook, question answering, social graph, social question answering, social search, twitter
  • Her grin was big and bright and not vague at all, and she directed it at me as if she were a third-grade teacher and I had just correctly spelled "aardvark" out loud. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • University, aardvark, btjunkie rss feed, German, UK. —  Mininova
  • The better the strategy and the more it makes sense to a client even if your ad has a goldfish tea bagging an aardvark, the easier they'll buy it and the sooner you can get home to enjoy what normal people call a life. —  Why Advertising Sucks
  • Find out how an aardvark, an armadillo and an anteater turn a plain old box into a time traveling machine, author and illustrator Suzanne Bloom's new children's book "A Mighty Fine Time Machine" (Boyds Mills Press, $16.95). —  theithacajournal.com -
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  1. Obsolete Afrikaans : aarde, earth (from Middle Dutch aerde; see er-2 in Indo-European roots) + vark, pig (from Middle Dutch varken; see porko- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Dutch, from aarde, = English earth, + vark, used only in diminutive form varken, a pig, = English farrow and English pork, q. v.
 

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