hoopoe

How To Use hoopoe In A Sentence

• As for hoopoe, I will quote The Century Dictionary, definition and all, with its abbreviations expanded: "The form hoopoe was doubtless originally pronounced like hoopoo, which, with hoophoop, first appears about 1667-78; an imitative variant or clipped reduplication of the earlier hoop, apparently after Latin upaupa …. OUPblog
• For example, and this is just for openers, you can be dumb as a dodo, crazy as a coot, silly as a goose, a sitting duck, or simply a dupe from de huppe, the hoopoe, an Old World bird, said to be more stupid than most. Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays
• Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
• Black and white bands cross the hoopoe's wings, back and tail.
• With a flutter of his wings and a low, rasping call, a male hoopoe lands at the rim of the nest cavity, holding a small caterpillar in his curved bill.
• Hoopoes like open ground with some trees to perch in and nest in. Times, Sunday Times
• As the Nile at that time was rising, there were many hoopoes and ibises in the nets, more than could be counted.
• This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel.
• Commentators generally agree that the hoopoe is the bird intended. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw, to seek from him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife. The Birds