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Examples
“The flying scavengers - they are called aasvogel in the dominant language, vultures in English.”
“In either event it might prove meat for Sheeta, and so the wary feline stalked by a circuitous route, upon soft, padded feet that gave forth no sound, until the circling aasvogel and his intended prey were upwind.”
“I thought it was an aasvogel, but another thought it was a baboon.”
“As slow as a fat vrouw and as greedy as an aasvogel. ”
“Already an aasvogel was hovering above; a mere speck, the great bird poised upon widespread wings, high up in the illimitable blue.”
“What is the tragedy of the aasvogel?" asked the Other sympathetically.”
“As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.”
“The aasvogel on watch up there far out of the range of man's vision had seen the deed, and, by sinking downwards, signalled it to his companions that were quartering the sky for fifty miles round; for these birds prey by sight, not by smell.”
“So we went, and when Hans was a little composed I told him all that I had observed about the habits of the aasvogel in the air, and he told me all that he had observed about their habits on the ground, which, as I might not shoot them sitting, did not interest me.”
“Scarcely was this aasvogel down, when others, summoned from the depths of sky, did as he had done.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aasvogel’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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bilby's once and future nicknames
brillby, Easter Bilby, Long Ears, underemployed, overpaid, knight of the rou..., spam skewerer, bilbycakes, bilbs, El bilby de la Pa..., leather ears, Miss Wordie and 165 more...
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A 1, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect, A level and 254 more...
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South African
kopje, baas, nek, dup, free-stater, Taal, kakie, braai, trap-bath split, basutos, tagati, kloof and 214 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Insulting Thee So Foreignly
Non-English words that sound like they might be derogatory. It doesnae matter whether they are or aren't in terms of their actual meaning. We just have to like saying them when we're feeling snarka...
aasvogel, vuvuzela, à la poupée, stoemp, livspusslet, Schnitzelbank, koksmuts, bydło, vuxenmys
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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vocab
hard word word 4 strong vocab
ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...
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Alpha
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aasvogel, aberuncator, abibliophobia, abscission, absquatulate, abstemious, abstergent, abstriction, acalculia, acanthus, achillean, acuminate and 86 more...
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mothertongue's Words
aviatrix, interrobang, ysprung, zaftig, aasvogel, glazed, unheimlich, chimera, diphthong, envermeil, humicubation, walleye and 4 more...
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Clashing by Night
Garnered.
cacophony, crunch, flatulent, gripe, jazz, phlegmatic, plump, plutocrat, sap, treachery, fructify, kumquat and 9 more...
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oo ee oo aa aa
Words that start with a double letter. Suggestions welcome!
eerie, eel, oolite, oozy, aardvark, oops, oology, oolong, ooh, oomiak, oomph, oospore and 15 more...
Tweets
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reesetee It's true! It's a name for several species of South African vultures. This is the archaic Afrikaans spelling ("aas" - carrion; "vogel" - bird), from the Dutch words. The modern Afrikaans is aasvoël, according to sources I checked.
Nov 30, 2009
sionnach Not to be confused with "Arschvögeln", which I think would mean something quite different. Nov 26, 2009
oroboros A bird, according to reesetee & mollusque. Nov 25, 2009