A man who has a farm of 3,000 or 4,000 acres is called a cockatoo and a man with 20,000 acres is known as a selector. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts About Canada and Australia] Reference
Apparently the term comes from "cockatoo", an Australian bird that lives in great flocks that take over the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
What was the name of Tony Baretta ` s pet cockatoo?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2005] Reference
But the little old lady held her head like a cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Sidney the cockatoo let out a shriek, upstaging Evelyn. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing in the Dark]
With that hackneyed sentiment, even the cockatoo screeched. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
ROBERTS: Hey, I'll see your coyote and raise you a cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2007] Reference
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) SAJAK: I hold in my hand a cockatoo, right?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
Potbellied pig got a little too big? cockatoo screams too much?. From Wordnik.com. [A Hedgehog In Your Hedgerow?] Reference
HANNA: This is a cockatoo, Larry, a very young cockatoo from Australia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
His backyard was home to baby crocodiles, birds of paradise and a cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [When Barry Became Barack] Reference
And John Broom felt as he had felt when he first saw Miss Betty's cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
She had the hard, staring, observant and unimpressionable eyes of a cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
"If I'm telling a lie," Pao-yü laughed, "I'm like that cockatoo on that frame!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
This is a cockatoo who not only can shake a lot but that can sing a little, too!. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007] Reference
"What are you putting up that top-knot of yours at me for?" said he to the cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
WESTHOVEN: And it's not the first time that this cockatoo has ruffled some feathers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2008] Reference
Anyway, this is the bird that Baretta had, and it's a cockatoo, a Moluccan cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
Private MCGREEVY, as a cockatoo, capital: his disguise obliterated him, but as Ensign and. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference
She travels with a cockatoo, a Bedlington terrier named Sarah, a harp and her own hip bath. From Wordnik.com. [Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 'Under The Radar' Reads] Reference
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
The sight of the cockatoo had brought back the fever of home-sickness in all its fierceness. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
One day the cockatoo got his chain entangled, and Miss Kitty promptly advanced to put it right. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
He shimmied up the towering pine yesterday afternoon to retrieve his beloved cockatoo, Geronimo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007] Reference
Not then to this, but this to stand at the football of marry old sake nickel and licking cockatoo!. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
After about four hours, the Coast Guard delivered Hart and his cockatoo safely back on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2007] Reference
"Eh, but you're a bonny creature!" he added, as the cockatoo filled the cage with snow and sulphur flutterings. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
"'Oo-ray, Say-rah!" screamed ` Ally Sloper, 'the cockatoo, in cordial appreciation, apparently, of this sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
When the cockatoo bit his finger to the bone, the man roared with laughter, but John Broom did not draw his hand away. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
He was a lovely creature (the cockatoo, not the cousin, who was plain), and John Broom's admiration of him was boundless. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
The speaker was a cockatoo of the most exquisite shades of cream colour, salmon and rose, and he had a rose-coloured crest. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
Broom seated himself on the same branch as the cockatoo, and undid the chain and prepared his hands for the downward journey. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
No snakes nor reptiles of any description were seen, but birds of various sorts were abundant, particularly the white cockatoo. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
A cantankerous waspish counsel, with the voice of an exasperated cockatoo, endeavours to make the opposing engineer contradict himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Besides the common white red-crested cockatoo, the woods are the home of the black species; a rare bird, that I have never seen elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.