morepoke
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
intj
Example Sentences
- "[I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke."
- "Where's that old morepoke? O, you're there, are you? Fetch the jack off o' your wagon—come! fly roun'! you're (very) slow for a young fellow."
- "We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again."
- "As soon as the shades of evening close in over the Australian forest, the ear is startled by the cry of "morepoke," clearly and loudly repeated, and a bird as large as an owl flits by on noiseless wing, like the goat-sucker at home. This is the Morepoke, a species of large night-jar,^([sic]) all head and mouth, about the size of an owl."