- a variation of kudu.
koodoo
Americannoun
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koodoos
plural
noun
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At last one of the turns in the fight brought me in view, and the koodoo dashed off again.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
As a springing rod flings a fish the koodoo flung Jock over its head and on to a low flat-topped thorn-tree behind.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
It was a running fight from that on: the instant the koodoo turned to go Jock was on to the leg again, and nothing could shake his hold.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Did he understand that it was not fresh game but the wounded koodoo that I wanted?
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I took one quick step out to follow her up and found myself face to face at less than a dozen yards with a grand koodoo bull.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
They look at us and we at them; and we pass on to see a herd of doe koodoos, with a magnificently horned buck or two, hurrying off to the dry hill-sides.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone
During it I quite forgot my own uncertain position, and the fact that, in reality, I was as much in the power of the men about me as were the poor koodoos at my feet.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
There was a fair quantity of game about; Klaas shot some klipspringer antelopes—hereabouts comparatively tame—up in the mountains, and there were koodoos, steinbok and duykers in the bushes and kopjes.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
Soon afterwards a herd of waterbucks were passed, and then a herd of koodoos, with two or three magnificently-horned bucks amongst them, which hurried off to the hillsides on seeing the travellers.
From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson
Blue wildebeests, koodoos, elands, and gems-bok were plentiful, and once he got a shot at a wart-hog boar.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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