“Seems like I heard a whippoorwill callinʼ, and I thought to myself, Go on away from here, weʼll whip ole Will when we find him.”
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Whippoorwill
//ˈʍɪp.ɚˌwɪl//
Synonyms for "whippoorwill" (2 found)
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14 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- американски козодой noun (bird)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᏍᏆᎴᏩᎵ noun (bird)
- ᏩᎫᎵ noun (bird)
Finnish
1 entries- amerikankehrääjä noun (bird)
French
1 entries- bois-pourri noun (bird)
German
1 entries- Schwarzkehl-Nachtschwalbe noun (bird)
Italian
2 entries- caprimulgo noun (bird)
- succiacapre noun (bird)
Latin
1 entries- caprimulgus noun (bird)
Navajo
1 entries- hoshdódii noun (bird)
Romanian
1 entries- caprimulg noun (bird)
Spanish
1 entries- cuerporruín noun (bird)
Swedish
1 entries- skriknattskärra noun (bird)
Unami
1 entries- wèkulis noun (bird)
Sample sentences
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The bird sang his whippoorwills all night.
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From across the road a bird sang 'Whippoorwill, whippoorwill!'
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Somewhere in the darkness a few cold-sounding frogs lamented the lost summer, and the bird which the Chippewa called muck-a-wiss sang whippoorwill.
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