waracabra

English

Etymology

From Lokono warakaba.

Noun

waracabra (plural waracabras)

1. (Guyana) trumpeter (bird)
   • 1929, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, Thirty Years in the Jungle, page 115:

     […] it may be a lithe, graceful ocelot, so intent on stalking an unsuspecting bush-turkey or a sleepy monkey that your nearness is unnoticed; or again it may be a flock of trumpet-birds or waracabras feeding and dancing in some tiny open glade.

   • 1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7:

     Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.

   • 2011 September 18, “Grey-winged Trumpeter”, in Stabroek News‎^[1]:

     The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas. Locally the species is known as ‘Waracabra‘.

Alternative forms

• warakabra