joey

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Though adult red kangaroos can grow more than 6 feet tall, a newborn joey is about the size of a jelly bean.

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  1. noun Australian A young animal, especially a baby kangaroo.

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  • What makes you think, joey, that I don't understand the emotional basis for religion? —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • She spoke to a monk on a train to Chiang Mai, slurped noodles in China, made friends with the son of our Japanese inn-keeper on the Izu Peninsula, ordered a bowl of clams by herself (in Portugese) in the Algarve, watched in wonder as a joey crawled back into it's mom's pouch in Australia, learned to swim in the Gulf of Siam. —  World Hum
  • This defeats the symlink-a-suid-binary-and-wait-for-exploit attack that used to be a worry, and which apparently still is to some. joey@gnu: ~ > ln / usr / bin / sudo joey@gnu: ~ > dir sudo - rwsr-xr-x 3 root root 112K Jul 6 2008 sudo* joey@gnu: ~ > sudo apt-get -- reinstall install sudo Reading package lists ... —  Planet Debian
  • The baby, called a joey, was born on October 25, 2006, but only recently left her puch for the outside world. —  Mongabay.com News
  • A baby kangaroo, or joey, as it is called, grows inside its mother for only one month.
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Dim. of Joe, a familiar abbreviation of Joseph. See joe.
  2. joey, n., 4. Cf. kid, v., to hoax.
 

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/ˈdʒoʊi/
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