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laughing jackass

laughing jackass

noun

  1. another name for kookaburra


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Word History and Origins

Origin of laughing jackass1

First recorded in 1780–90; so called because of its loud braying sound

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Example Sentences

For it is a biped and not a quadruped; not that as a biped "the Laughing Jackass" is by any means a lusus natur.

If hissing heard anywhere, up starts the Laughing Jackass and down he comes on the snake, and there's an end of the hissing.

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