See moha moha on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Miss Lovell's first report (quote below) spelt the creature moka moka, but in her second it was moha moha (also below).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "!" }, "expansion": "moha moha (plural not attested)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals", "parents": [ "Nouns with unattested plurals", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English reduplications", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Cryptozoology", "orig": "en:Cryptozoology", "parents": [ "Forteana", "Zoology", "Pseudoscience", "Biology", "Sciences", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "1891, S. Lovell, \"Tempus omnia monstra\", in Land and Water, London, 3 March 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who was unable to obtain the original and so quotes from Bernard Heuvelmans, In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, 1968, who in turn apparently quotes from Antoon C. Oudemans, The Great Sea-Serpent, 1892).\nNative blacks call it 'Moka, moka' and say they like to eat it, and that it has legs and fingers.", "type": "quotation" }, { "text": "1891, S. Lovell, \"Land and Water\", 25 April 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith from Heuvelmans etc).\nThe blacks, who had not seen it the day I did, named it at once from my sketch, which must, therefore, be pretty accurate, and called it 'Moha, Moha', and laughed and said, 'Saucy Fellow, Meebee' – in English, 'dangerous turtle'.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail." ], "id": "en-moha_moha-en-noun-sLANu-DI", "links": [ [ "cryptozoology", "cryptozoology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(cryptozoology) A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Chelosauria lovelli" } ], "tags": [ "no-plural" ], "topics": [ "biology", "cryptozoology", "natural-sciences", "zoology" ] } ], "word": "moha moha" }
{ "etymology_text": "Miss Lovell's first report (quote below) spelt the creature moka moka, but in her second it was moha moha (also below).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "!" }, "expansion": "moha moha (plural not attested)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English nouns with unattested plurals", "English reduplications", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Cryptozoology" ], "examples": [ { "text": "1891, S. Lovell, \"Tempus omnia monstra\", in Land and Water, London, 3 March 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who was unable to obtain the original and so quotes from Bernard Heuvelmans, In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, 1968, who in turn apparently quotes from Antoon C. Oudemans, The Great Sea-Serpent, 1892).\nNative blacks call it 'Moka, moka' and say they like to eat it, and that it has legs and fingers.", "type": "quotation" }, { "text": "1891, S. Lovell, \"Land and Water\", 25 April 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith from Heuvelmans etc).\nThe blacks, who had not seen it the day I did, named it at once from my sketch, which must, therefore, be pretty accurate, and called it 'Moha, Moha', and laughed and said, 'Saucy Fellow, Meebee' – in English, 'dangerous turtle'.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail." ], "links": [ [ "cryptozoology", "cryptozoology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(cryptozoology) A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail." ], "tags": [ "no-plural" ], "topics": [ "biology", "cryptozoology", "natural-sciences", "zoology" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Chelosauria lovelli" } ], "word": "moha moha" }
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