Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small owl, Athene boobook, of a rusty red color, found in Australia and Tasmania: so named on account of its peculiar call or hoot.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various owls of Asia and Australasia of the genus Ninox.
Examples
“They sit so still on any wires around and I actually love their 'boobook' noise.”
“Nor, I think is it anything to do with the boobook, as the subtle brown owl we called the mopoke is more properly known.”
“It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.”
“The first white settlers called Ninox boobook the cuckoo owl; to the Arrernte, it was the arkularkua.”
“The Norfolk Island boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae royana), an endemic owl, was reduced to a single female in 1987 but has since mated successfully with a male New Zealand boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae), and some of their offspring have also survived and bred.”
“Four of these species are considered vulnerable: Sumba buttonquail (Turnix everetti), red-naped fruit-dove (Ptilinopus dohertyi), Sumba boobook (Ninox rudolfi), and Sumba hornbill (Aceros everetti).”
“Right, boobook - don't have the audacity to condescend to me, whoever you are.”
“Whenever my laptop tells me I have mail by hooting like a boobook owl.”
“Nosepeg’s dreaming was the mopoke, the boobook owl I had heard in the night.”
“We are experiencing an extinction crisis with ongoing major threats to terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments ... "boobook. org.au”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boobook’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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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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Owls
owl, owls, bowl, howl, acknowledge, batfowl, barn owl, barred owl, bowlder, bowler, bowlegged, lawn bowling and 40 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Tandem repeat
Words that have an adjacent repeat of three or more letters. I've omitted most words ending in "-inging" where both g's are hard. I've excluded words composed solely of repeats and the plurals of t...
nonsense, chihuahua, sesterterpene, ovotestes, furfuraceous, borborygmi, materteral, tintinnabulating, syringing, zinging, purpurate, seismism and 154 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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(the Mind) Baubles
Shiny, tinkly-trinkety miniments.. (a place to hang my windchime-words).
afterlithe, omniana, hiplings, littératrice, blisters, bathysphere, belletristic, deliquium, fissiparity, glister, glossolalia, jaspure and 40 more...
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birds which sound their names
or part of them. I'm a bit sleepy, I think these need checking
kittiwake, chiffchaff, turtle dove, cuckoo, twite, hadeda ibis, crex crex, whippoorwill, peewit, chickadee, chough, knot and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boobook.
reesetee I exclaim this when it's really cold and I want something to read. Jul 21, 2010
dontcry *snort* Jul 21, 2010
ruzuzu Fewer than for a raccoonnookkeeper, that's for sure. Jul 21, 2010
fbharjo Are there more or less boo-boos allowed for a boobookkeeper? Jul 21, 2010
ruzuzu Aha... and if you were responsible for the care and feeding of the boobook, would you be a boobookkeeper? Jul 21, 2010
hernesheir A "nOtusably" fine word! Jul 21, 2010
fbharjo What a (h)owl! Jul 21, 2010
reesetee A small spotted owl native to Australia and New Zealand. I suspect this is what it sounds like when it calls. :-) Feb 14, 2007