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- noun South Africa The red-chested
cuckoo .
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From Afrikaans piet-my-vrou, literally ‘Peter my wife’, supposed representation of the bird’s call.
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reesetee commented on the word piet-my-vrou
The red-chested cuckoo. The name comes from Afrikaans for "Peter my wife," a representation of the bird's call.
April 11, 2008