hoopoe
pronunciation
How to pronounce hoopoe in British English:
UK [ˈhu:pu:]
How to pronounce hoopoe in American English:
US [ˈhupoʊ]
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- Noun:
- any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill
Word Origin
- hoopoe
- hoopoe: see dupe
- hoopoe (n.)
- 1660s, from Latin upupa, imitative of its cry (compare Greek epops "hoopoe").If anybody smears himself with the blood of this bird on his way to bed, he will have nightmares about suffocating devils. [Cambridge bestiary, 12c.]