Crossword clues for whippoorwill
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1709, imitative of its cry.
Wiktionary
alt. a nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America, ''Caprimulgus vociferus'', a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call. n. a nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America, ''Caprimulgus vociferus'', a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call.
WordNet
n. American nocturnal goatsucker with gray-and-white plumage [syn: Caprimulgus vociferus]
Wikipedia
Whippoorwill, Whip-poor-will and variants may refer to:
- Eastern whip-poor-will
- Mexican whip-poor-will
- Whippoorwill (train)
- Whippoorwill, Kentucky
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(ship list)
- The Whippoorwill Club
Usage examples of "whippoorwill".
I used to think that the call of the whippoorwill was a sweetly nostalgic sound, but never again.
I lay listening, almost instantly wide awake, listening for whatever it was, listening until the endless whippoorwill screamed from a thousand throats seemed to mark the very pulsing of my blood, the throbbing of the spheres!
Osseo heard as whispers, What as words he comprehended, Was but music to the others, Music as of birds afar off, Of the whippoorwill afar off, Of the lonely Wawonaissa Singing in the darksome forest.
As he strode forward into the depthless sea of darkness a whippoorwill called.
Suddenly the ghostly call of a whippoorwill broke out from the willows.
He passed into the shadows of the trees and dense underbrush and walked across the dry creek bed, noting absently that neither whippoorwill nor hoot-owl called in the darkness.
A whippoorwill called eerily from the dark shadows of the narrow winding creek.
It sounded a little like the call of a whippoorwill, and for some reason Jameson read pathos into it.
The night was dark and quiet, except for the occasional call of a whippoorwill in the treetops nearby and the wind lifting a tent flap and then dropping it back into place.
They had been out all night, watching the final night of an Enemy Way ceremonial over near the Whippoorwill Chapter House.
Knowing a little of the habits of whippoorwills, I fully expected the calls to cease within an hour of beginning, and to start up again before dawn.
It was soon borne in upon me that it was the whippoorwills and their frenetic calling in the night which had excited the neighbors.
It was Hester Hutchins who put the superstitious fears of the neighbors into words, when she told about the whippoorwills to a cousin who had telephoned from Dunwich, some miles to the north.
But these were no longer visible or audible as the darkness fell, and one after another, the whippoorwills began to call.
Undeniably, the whippoorwills drifted down out of the hills on noiseless wings toward the house in which I sat.