To tuck in is provincial English for to eat, andtuck is a school-boy word for food, especially whatis bought at a pastrycook's. Sapindaceae. It was therefore replaced, in scientificnomenclature, by the name Ornithorhynchus, by Blumenbachin 1800. acorruption of Maori name piripiri.
Whip-bird, or Coach-whip, from the sound of thenote, Lyre-bird from the appearance of the outspread tail, areadmirable names. 12: `I tumble down pickaninny here,' he said, meaning that he wasborn there. 44, 45, pl. It is a dark-coloured spider, with abright red or yellowish stripe.
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