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Litmom Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

I dnt get the meaning

Hello.


There is a sentence:

"I heard the hooing and gurgling of a water-bottle bird."


What is a wate-bottle bird?

since that context is about Africa I cannot imagine it is about a bird in a cage who dreams from a water bottle.

can it be the name of a kind of bird?


I also don't get what "hooing" and "gurgling" sound like.


thank you

  

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litmom can it be the name of a kind of bird? Yes. Apparently it is a common name for the white-browed coucal, so named because its bubbly call sounds like water being poured out of a bottle.

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  • litmom can it be the name of a kind of bird?
  • Yes.
  • Apparently it is a common name for the white-browed coucal, so named because its bubbly call sounds like water being poured out of a bottle.
  • litmom I also don't get what "hooing" and "gurgling" sound like.
  • ".
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litmomcan it be the name of a kind of bird?

Yes. Apparently it is a common name for the white-browed coucal, so named because its bubbly call sounds like water being poured out of a bottle.

litmomI also don't get what "hooing" and "gurgling" sound like.

"hooing" seems imitative of making a sound like "hoo!". "gurgl

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It is the common name for the white-browed coucal.

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