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  • Drag to Playlist remi gillard (kangaroo) en esta ocasion el frances se disfraza de canguro y va haciendo de las suyas por donde pasa. .metiendose con cualquiera!!! remi giilard y sus amigo s en esta ocasion imitan el mitico videojuego pacman .... en un supermercado!!!!

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • There's a tsunami of media coverage of this but this article sums up for me why Rudd deserved it: www. theage.com.au en esta ocasion el frances se disfraza de canguro y va haciendo de las suyas por donde pasa. .metiendose con cualquiera!!!

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • It is now thought that the animal described by Solander was not a kangaroo in the strict sense but a wallaby, specifically a Cape York form of whip-tail wallaby with the scientific name Wallabia canguro in recognition of the connection with Cook's expedition.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

  • Since a canguro can also be someone promoted rapidly and over the heads of his colleagues, the Italians have also utilized metaphorically the leaping habit of the kangaroo, a habit noticed by the Danes when they coined kængurustylte for a pogo-stick.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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  • Spanish: kangaroo. Also in Spain, babysitter (f. cangura).

    September 18, 2008

  • That's cute yarb.

    Canguro is also used in Italian, for bouncy marsupials only.

    September 18, 2008