morepoke

English

Noun

morepoke (plural morepokes)

Alternative spelling of morepork
- 1876, Richard Rowe, “The Bunyip”, in A Child’s Corner Book: Stories for Boys and Girls, London; Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. […], OCLC 224048116, page 182:
  [I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke.
- 1903 August 1, Tom Collins [pseudonym; Joseph Furphy], chapter 1, in Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bulletin Newspaper Company, OCLC 838332344; republished Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin House of Books, 2012, →ISBN:
  Where's that old morepoke? O, you're there, are you? Fetch the jack off o' your wagon—come! fly roun'! you're (very) slow for a young fellow.
- 2016, Brigid Lowry, “My Inky Life: Thoughts about Writing Memoir”, in Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity, North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN:
  We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again.

Interjection

morepoke

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 938606428, 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.

单词	morepoke
释义	morepoke English Noun morepoke (plural morepokes) Alternative spelling of morepork 1876, Richard Rowe, “The Bunyip”, in A Child’s Corner Book: Stories for Boys and Girls, London; Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. […], OCLC 224048116, page 182: [I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke. 1903 August 1, Tom Collins [pseudonym; Joseph Furphy], chapter 1, in Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bulletin Newspaper Company, OCLC 838332344; republished Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin House of Books, 2012, →ISBN: Where's that old morepoke? O, you're there, are you? Fetch the jack off o' your wagon—come! fly roun'! you're (very) slow for a young fellow. 2016, Brigid Lowry, “My Inky Life: Thoughts about Writing Memoir”, in Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity, North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN: We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again. Interjection morepoke 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 938606428, 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.
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