Examples
“I brought Ron round -- that took a while -- and we were dashing up to the owlery to contact Dumbledore when we met him in the entrance hall -- he already knew -- he just said, 'Harry's gone after him, hasn't he?' and hurtled off to the third floor.”
“She sometimes flew in to nibble his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls.”
“Grab brooms from the flying - key room, they'll get you out of the trapdoor and past Fluffy -- go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore, we need him.”
“Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M'Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?”
“Very well: the "light" is more and more withdrawn; and for some time you have a general dusk, very favorable for catching mice; and the opulent owlery is very "happy," and well-off at its banker's; -- and furthermore, by due sequence, infallible as the foundations of the Universe and Nature's oldest law, the light _returns_ on you, condensed, this time, into _lightning_, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in!”
“I realized that I didn't want to cease my 'night-owlery' because I didn't want to … er, stop being young.”
“Go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore, right? ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘owlery’.
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ozostomia, ozoniferous, oxytone, oxytocic, oxyphonia, oxymoron, oxygeusia, oxyblepsia, oxyacanthous, oxter, oxyacaesthesia, owling and 504 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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wry -ery
inspired by Rolig's 'pocketful of -ry'
mattery, vachery, ewery, sphery, fullery, eggery, orangery, swannery, serictery, orrery, punguinery, mummery and 24 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Dan: You read this already. — Your p...
Long ago, I learned a useful habit from a good friend: Every time he looked up a word in his dictionary, he’d put a mark next to it. His explanation for this was vague at best, but I understood a...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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A Place for Everything
spicery, creamery, perfumery, confectionery, bakery, fishery, chandlery, beanery, grocery, ashery, haberdashery, carvery and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for owlery.
leaden Now try “sixth owlery squirrel”. Oct 14, 2011
ruzuzu Would a woodchuck woolery work?
*will be back in two and two*
*makes two-fingered hand gesture* May 10, 2010
milosrdenstvi How about a growlery? Or, following Milne, a Wolery? May 10, 2010
frogapplause This is a difficult word to pronounce. May 10, 2010