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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun A short-tailed herbivorous marsupial (Setonix brachyurus) found in coastal areas of southwest Australia.

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noun A cat-sized marsupial (Setonix brachyurus) found in southwestern Australia.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Nyungar (Pama-Nyungan language of southwest Australia) gwaga.]

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And did you know that a quokka is a small wallaby?

Archive 2006-10-01 StyleyGeek 2006
Traditional ones like quokka get an airing, but the quokka is a rare animal now, found only on a few offshore islands in Western Australia, and so the word must be much less often used than an everyday Adelaide word like stobie pole (` utility pole '), for instance.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4 1980
And quokka, 10 points for noticing a half-crinkled collar, not that I did.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning. 2009
By HAVOCK, February 10, 2010 @ 12: 56 pm quokka ..

Cheeseburger Gothic » Grading work, the heavy bag, a day of manuscript doctoring. 2010
By Abigail, January 14, 2010 @ 9: 05 pm quokka - i meant to say, about your study plans - that really sounds interesting.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge. 2010
By Chaz, January 1, 2010 @ 12: 55 pm quokka how about some resetlams?

Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009
By Chaz, December 14, 2009 @ 6: 45 pm quokka just lay down roach baits, the big ones. people tend to leave about then.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Last minute faff/thinky link. 2009
A.M, sunday, quokka has offered to collect me for Bridge assault donw to REDCLIFFISTHAN and meet BIG BAD FKN AL, for Pancakes breakfast..sounds wicked.

Cheeseburger Gothic » A thread in which the endless faffage of next weekend’s burger extravaganza is organized. Sort of. 2010
By Chaz, April 15, 2010 @ 6:45 pm quokka, and you could argue that the players act like them as well, esp after couple of shandies!

Cheeseburger Gothic » Footy tipping for charity tomorrw. Victorian input needed. 2010
Apparently this is what teenagers refer to as a ‘quokka pile’.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Monster Yuppy’s spam trap. 2010

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kewpid commented on the word quokka

Fairly cute critters that ought not to be kicked, thrown, tossed, or otherwise abused.

November 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word quokka

Aww! Who'd do that?

November 30, 2007
kewpid commented on the word quokka

Rugby players apparently :(

December 1, 2007
sionnach commented on the word quokka

Rugby players have pouches under their kilts?

December 1, 2007
bilby commented on the word quokka

Ah. My cousin, the cabbage-eared bandicoot.

December 7, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word quokka

Not a bilby, not a qroqqa.

February 13, 2011
bilby commented on the word quokka

Beware of the tall stories they tell. Quokka shit.

February 14, 2011
MaryW commented on the word quokka

There are many poxviruses in nature, and they infect species that gather in swarms and herds, circulating among them like pickpockets at a fair. There are two principal kinds of pox viruses: the poxes of vertebrates and the poxes of insects. Pox hunters have so far discovered mousepox, monkeypox, skunkpox, pigpox, goatpox, camelpox, pseudocowpox, buffalopox, gerbilpox, several deerpoxes, chamoispox, a couple of sealpoxes, turkeypox, canarypox, pigeonpox, starlingpox, peacockpox, sparrowpox, juncopox, mynahpox, quailpox, parrotpox, and toadpox. There's mongolian horsepox, a pox called Yaba monkey tumor, and a pox called orf. There's dolphinpox, penguinpox, two kangaroopoxes, raccoonpox, and quokkapox. (The quokka is an Australian wallaby.) Snakes catch snakepox, spectacled caimans suffer from spectacled caimanpox, and crocodiles get crocpox. . . .
Insects are tortured by poxviruses. There are three groups of insect poxviruses: the beetlepoxes, the butterflypoxes (which include the mothpoxes), and the poxes of flies, including the mosquitopoxes. Any attempt to get to the bottom of the insect poxes would be like trying to enumerate the nine billion names of God.
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. . . The insect poxes may have arisen in early Devonian times, long before the age of dinosaurs . . . when . . . the first insects were evolving. . . .
At least two known midgepoxes torment midges. Grasshoppers are known to suffer from at least six different grasshopperpoxes. If a plague of African locusts breaks out with locustpox, the plague is hit with a plague, and is in deep trouble. Poxviruses keep herds and swarms of living things in check, preventing them from growing too large and overwhelming their habitats.
Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (New York: Random House, 2002), pp. 64-66

February 29, 2016