Definitions
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- noun Archaic form of
hoopoe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill
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Examples
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The King, it appears, chose the hoopoo and the cock for his companions, and appointed the doves to dwell in the temple which he was to erect
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The hoopoo: "He that shows no mercy, shall not obtain mercy."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Man to start for the pampas of Patagonia to hunt the hoopoo.
The Hohenzollerns in America Stephen Leacock 1906
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Wherever lay a patch of white and yellow flowers or of rough grass no bigger than a prayer rug, a lark soared from its nest singing its jewel-song; and here and there a gentle hoopoo reared the crown which rewarded it for guiding lost King Solomon and his starving army to safety.
It Happened in Egypt 1889
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As for hoopoe, I will quote The Century Dictionary, definition and all, with its abbreviations expanded: "The form hoopoe was doubtless originally pronounced like hoopoo, which, with hoophoop, first appears about 1667-78; an imitative variant or clipped reduplication of the earlier hoop, apparently after Latin upaupa ….
OUPblog 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word hoopoo
"Zoos known to stock zoomorphs (crocs or komodos, coons or bonobos) show off odd fowl: condors, hoopoos, flocks of owls or loons (not flocks of rocs or dodos)."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 69
May 22, 2010