Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A brownish-green New Zealand parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A parrot of the genus Nestor, peculiar to New Zealand. The common kaka is N. hypopolius, and the mountain kaka N. notabilis. See Nestor.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
Etymologies
- From Maori kākā (Wiktionary)
- Maori kākā, from Proto-Polynesian *kākā, from reduplication of *kā, to screech. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word 'cake' is said to have coined as early as 13th century and is said to have derived from 'kaka' - an Old Norse word.”
“Udinese - Milan sam: kaka kaka - cheeky backheel gone to waste Copa Del Rey Champions! sid: The key to piercing the bus is having midfielders shooting from long range.”
“However, having paid an amazing £100 million on 'Buy It Now' - shattering the prior fee record for any player - the club were despondent to be sent a bucket of fresh horse 'kaka' instead.”
“Their father's friend then introduced them to a new intermediary, calling him their "kaka" (uncle).”
The Guardian: Mohammad Razai: from child Afghan asylum seeker to Cambridge undergraduate
“There is also a very rare and as yet unnamed kind of kaka, much larger and handsomer than the kaka itself, of which I and another shot one of the first, if not the very first, observed specimen.”
“We have a great support staff, Kirsten and Paddy Upton, Nitin Patel (physio), Ramesh Mane 'kaka' (masseur), Ramji (trainer) and Dhananjai”
“well, she just wrote me that the smell of "kaka," as she puts it, almost made her faint and she's got a headache because of it heheeh nurses get paid...”
“Somebody took a little food and left it outside for the crows -- a ritual called "kaka shadham", or "crows' rice", in Tamil, to return part of the food to nature.”
The Huffington Post: Deepa S. Iyer: The Sacred Act Of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual
“Due to the many demands on my time working with authors I have chosen to actually interact with, I will not be able to tell you where to go with your manuscript in person, but I can offer the following generic observations based on my extensive experience with many other manuscripts similar to "[Loser's loserish name for the pile of kaka he has festering next to his bed in his mom's basement]".”
“They play music and smoke cigarettes and drink beer and make jokes about kaka.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kaka’.
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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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Maori words playable in scrabble
Maori, weve had a influx since
2007ahuru+, ahuruhuru+, aka+, akatea+, akeake+, akiraho+, amokura+, araara+, ariki+, aroha+, aruhe+, ataata+ and 297 more...
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EN - baby talk
neigh-neigh, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo, silly-billy, okey-dokey, topsy-turvy, binkie-winkie, ba-ba, bot-bot, pom-pom, kaka, aye-aye and 84 more...
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sourashtra
This list gives the english meanings of sourashtra words. Its language classification is : Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Gujarati. Ethnologue code is ISO 639-3: saz. (
Tu, a, kOn, Kaai, laath, kha, ninji, miski, dhooL, saa, pay, huut and 266 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama 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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Déjà wordie?
pom-pom, mama, gaga, muumuu, cancan, dodo, aye-aye, kaka, dada, boo-boo, coco, lulu and 18 more...
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The Kite Runner
laaf, naan, zakat, hadj, namaz, mewling, kaka, agha, trepidation, watan, kasseef, chapan and 3 more...
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zoology
animals of interest
sloth, kakapo, kaka, hoatzin, numbat, wombat, hyena, wallaby, emu, morepork, jackdaw, magpie and 73 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kaka.
reesetee But never both in the same body.
Also k�?k�?. Feb 8, 2008
yarb Also a Brazilian footballer. Feb 8, 2008
reesetee Any of several New Zealand parrots of the genus Nestor, especially N. meridionalis,, with predominantly greenish and olive-brown plumage. Feb 8, 2008