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Tu-whoo   Listen
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Tu-whoo, Tu-whit  n., interj.  Words imitative of the notes of the owl. "Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tu-whoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not venture even to look out of doors. The only people who seemed to enjoy it were the great horned Owls. Their feathers were quite stiff with rime, but they did not mind, and they rolled their large yellow eyes, and called out to each other across the forest, 'Tu-whit! Tu-whoo! Tu-whit! Tu-whoo! what ...
— A House of Pomegranates • Oscar Wilde

... Schuhu! Tu-whit! Tu-whit! Are the jay, and owl, and pewit All awake and loudly calling? What goes through the bushes yonder? Can it be the Salamander— Belly thick and legs a-sprawling? Roots and fibres, snake-like, crawling, ...
— Faust • Goethe



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