Re: antonyms: regretful & tasty
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 11, 2003, 4:56 |
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> > puck [pVk]* n
> > 4 The European goatsucker. local, England
>¿el chupacabras?
Goatsucker (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of several species of insectivorous birds,
belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species
(Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks
goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer,
fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and
dorhawk .
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