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noun, plural gnus, (especially collectively) gnu.
either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
Also called wildebeest.
Origin:
1770–80; < Khoikhoi, first recorded as t’gnu; probably to be identified with ǂnû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest
1770–80; < Khoikhoi, first recorded as t’gnu; probably to be identified with ǂnû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest
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Gnus
is always a great word to know.
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
gnu
1777, from Du. gnoe, used by Ger. traveler Georg Forster (1754-1794) to render Hottentot i-ngu "wildebeest," from Southern Bushman !nu: (in which ! and : represent clicks).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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GNUS definition
tool, networkingGNU news.
A GNU Emacs subsystem for reading and sending Usenet news, written by Masanobu Umeda
GNUS can be configured to use the NNTP protocol to get news from a remove server or it can read it from local news spool files.
Usenet newsgorup: news:gnu.emacs.gnus.
(1995-05-04)
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