killdee
Americannoun
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The meadow larks call from the pasture, and overhead the killdee pipes his plaintive call.
From Byways Around San Francisco Bay by William E. Hutchinson
The blackbirds jangle in the tops Of hoary-antlered sycamores; The timorous killdee starts and stops Among the drift-wood on the shores.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
He ran along before the children as nimbly as a killdee, talking and laughing all the time.
From Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Oliver Herford
But when I at's him ag'in, to lock legs or kick ankles, dar he's 'way off yander, a-tippin' it on his toes, like a killdee.
From Burl by Morrison Heady
That's all right," he continued, as the son closed in on me: "I kin handle the little killdee by myself....
From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg
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