Definitions For Morepork

Interjection

{{en-interj}} {{non-gloss definition, The call#noun, call of a #noun, morepork.}}

Alternative forms

morepoke

Noun

MOREPORK (plural MOREPORKs) (chiefly, New Zealand) The {{vern, Tasmanian spotted owl}} (Ninox novaeseelandiae), a small brown#adjective, brown owl indigenous to new zealand and tasmania. from 19th c. : {{synonyms, en, mopoke, q1=Australia, ruru, q2=New Zealand}} (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, derogatory) {{non-gloss definition, Used as a mild term of abuse#noun, abuse.}} A foolish person; also, a person who is wearisome. {{quote-hansard, en, speaker={{w, Ken Shirley}}, debate=Appropriation Bill (No. 2)—Financial Statement: Second Reading, report=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): First Session, Forty-first Parliament, house=w:new zealand house of representatives, house of representatives, location=Wellington, publisher=V. R. Ward, government printer, date=16 July 1985, volume=464, page=5636, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HgrAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA5636, oclc=191255532, passage=It is interesting that the Opposition morepork is starting to chirp. [...] We have all heard about the "gang of four and a half"—the morepork brigade.}} A person who is lazy or slow#adjective, slow; a slowcoach, a slowpoke. : {{synonyms, en, Thesaurus:idler}} {{quote-book, en, author=Tom Collins [pseudonym; {{w, Joseph Furphy}}], chapter=1, chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ey8ldWoRhEUC&pg=PT20, title=w:such is life (novel), such is life: being certain extracts from the diary of tom collins, location=Sydney, N.S.W., publisher=Bulletin Newspaper Company, date=1 August 1903, oclc=838332344, location2=Crows Nest, N.S.W., publisher2=w:allen & unwin, allen & unwin house of books, year2=2012, isbn2=978-1-74331-273-5, passage=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.}}

Alternative forms

morepoke

Hypernyms

bird of the genus ninox boobook, boobook owl, hawk owl

Derived terms

mopoke

Translations

Catalan: nínox de Nova Zelanda, m Czech: sovka bubuk, f, sova skvrnitá, f Danish: newzealandsk høgeugle Dutch: Nieuw-Zeelandse boeboekuil Esperanto: ruruo Estonian: lõuna-haugaskakk Finnish: uudenseelanninhaukkapöllö French: ninoxe boubouk, f German: Neuseeland-Kuckuckskauz, m Hebrew: ינשוף טסמני מנוקד Hungarian: kakukkbagoly Irish: búbúc Norfolk Italian: gufastore di Nuova Zelanda Japanese: ニュージーランドアオバズク Lithuanian: gegutinė aštrianagė pelėda Maori: ruru Navajo: néʼéshjaaʼ tsįyaalzhahí łikizhígíí Norwegian: nattsvermerugle Polish: sowica ciemnolica Portuguese: coruja-lavradora, f Russian: куку́шечья иглоно́гая сова́, f Slovak: sovka mopoke Spanish: nínox maorí, m Swedish: nyazeelandspökuggla Welsh: gwalchdylluan bwbwc

Etymology

, otago, new zealand]] The word is {{glossary, imitative}} of the bird's call.{{R:OED Online, pos=n. and int, id=257720, date=December 2002, nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico, pos=n}}