"moha moha" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Miss Lovell's first report (quote below) spelt the creature moka moka, but in her second it was moha moha (also below).",
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      "expansion": "moha moha (plural not attested)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Cryptozoology",
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        {
          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "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'.",
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      "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."
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        "(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."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Chelosauria lovelli"
        }
      ],
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        "no-plural"
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        "biology",
        "cryptozoology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "moha moha"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Miss Lovell's first report (quote below) spelt the creature moka moka, but in her second it was moha moha (also below).",
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          "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.",
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          "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'.",
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        "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."
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        "(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."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Chelosauria lovelli"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moha moha"
}