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Meanings of loon in inglês

russo
loon
português
projeto loon
espanhol
project loon

Company working on balloons that provide internet access.

Related terms
projeto loon
português
mobelha
catalão
gaviforme
espanhol
gavia

Large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes.

mobelha

A person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.

Language in Maluku.

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Sinônimos
Examples for "birdbrain"
Examples for "birdbrain"
1
Clarkson was involved in a much publicised scuffle with a drunken birdbrain in Adelaide.
The Guardian
2
That birdbrain ex-wife of mine is a kidnapper.
Hard eight
3
A staggering 25 billion chickens are presently clucking, making them far and away the most populous birdbrain on the planet.
The Irish Times
4
If they don't, some of the players are bigger birdbrains than we thought.
The Guardian
5
True, a few birdbrains insisted on attaching the superfluous "No surrender" to England's national anthem.
The Guardian
1
What do you take me for, an addle-head?
Savage
2
There's a passage in the book that would fit half these addle-headed rhymesters.
The Guardian Angel
3
I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her addle-headed aunt Julia.
No Name
4
What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!
Barry Lyndon
5
My boys have been addle-headed from infancy.
No Name
Usage of loon in inglês
1
Rather it used to be, before I went into the loon house.
Mister Slaughter
2
A loon, Abigail had said-thoughthere were no loons in these parts.
In the shadow of gotham
3
A loon cried out on the lake; moths battered the stoop light.
Bag of Bones
4
The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.
The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
5
Strange to say, a loon was once pulled up with the shad.
Nature's Serial Story
6
The effort was ridiculous, and he but flopped like a winged loon.
A Man and a Woman
7
At the end of his emperorship, he was something of a loon.'
Sign of the cross
8
Not of the funeral bell variety, but rather of a drunken loon.
Mister Slaughter
9
Well, one night I hearn a loon, or thought I hearn one.
Sevenoaks: A Story of Today
10
To a pale-faced loon from Cheshire, it felt like Dante's fiery furnace.
Paths of glory
11
He was peering round the old loon, trying to read the labels.
The Naked God
12
When ye kin stick a fork in the grin'stone, the loon's done!
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
13
A barred loon called from the far end of the lake.
The truth of valor
14
At times the call of the loon breaks the evening air.
The Tarn of Eternity
15
It went willingly, like a loon diving under the water after a fish.
Oracle's Queen
16
When caught and placed in our kind of captivity, the loon goes daft.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
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Translations for loon
catalão
gaviforme
Loon through the time
Loon across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common