Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word imitating the cry of the owl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Words imitative of the notes of the owl.
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Examples
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It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves.
Walden 2004
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A night-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and screeched three times ‘tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo.’
The Green Fairy Book 2003
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"Tu-whit, tu-whoo! tu-whit, tu-whoo!" and laughed so loudly that all the wood-elves began to laugh also; so did the birds and the frogs, and even the flowers.
Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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And golden-eyed _tu-whit, tu-whoo_ of owls that ogle London.
Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931
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And golden-eyed tu-whit, tu-whoo of owls that ogle London.
Barrel-Organ 1920
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A night-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and screeched three times ‘tu - whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo. '
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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And Kate Arnall can tu-whit, tu-whoo! equal to Tennyson himself, or any great white
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It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves.
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It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves.
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It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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