kookan.
/ˈkʊkə/, U.S. /ˈkʊkə/, Australian English /ˈkʊkə/ Australian slang.
= kookaburra n.
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1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 21/4 An article on upsetting the balance of nature in which one Shepstone quotes the sad case of the kooka.
1949 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 374/1 Hence such names for the Kookaburra as..breakfast bird, kooka and ha ha pigeon.
1964 P. Carlon Price of Orphan iv. 44 He was going to be grabbed like a kooka sighting a snake.
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