
A kookaburra is a bird which is native to Australia. The word comes from the Wiradhuri word "gugubarra". Wiradhuri is "a Aboriginal language of SE Australia" (American Heritage Dictionary). I like this word not only because it's fun to say but because the bird is quite silly as well. It's a bird which is about the size of two fists and always looks like it's smiling. And, as the AHD puts it so well, it has " a call that resembles raucous laughter". Such a funny bird. Oh yeah, and it's fuzzy.
Yay for visual aids!
ReplyDeleteThis was my favorite song on Barney.
ReplyDelete"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, merry merry king of the bushes, he..."