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Tu-whoo   Listen
noun
Tu-whoo, Tu-whit  n., interj.  Words imitative of the notes of the owl. "Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight."






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"Tu-whoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... forgotten how to be anything else, but she is liable to find out. Your Aunt, beloved, proposes to put this lady through a Course of Sprouts. Tu-whit! your Aunt has spoken. We may also remark, in this connection only, tu-whoo!" ...
— Fernley House • Laura E. Richards

... profitably continue the discussion of that subject. However, my only fear is that you may perhaps be writing above the heads of the audience. Not in the music, Artie; they can't fail to catch that; it rings in one's head like the song of a hedge warbler—tirree, tirree, lu-lu-lu, la-la, tirree, tu-whit, tu-whoo, tra-la-la—but in the words and the action. I'm half afraid that'll be over their heads, even in the gallery. What do you think ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen



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