morepoke

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Noun

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morepoke (plural morepokes)

  1. Alternative spelling of morepork

Interjection

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morepoke

  1. Alternative spelling of morepork
    • 1861, [Horace William Wheelwright], “A Chapter on the Ornithology of Port Phillip”, in Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist; or, Notes on the Field Sports and Fauna of Australia Felix. By an Old Bushman, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [], →OCLC, page 126:
      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.