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waxwing (iou) and cuss word (oh)


waxwing (iou)



waxwing noun. E19.
[from WAX noun1 + WING noun.]
Each of three crested perching birds of the genus Bombycilla, which have red waxlike tips to the inner wing feathers; esp. (more fully Bohemian waxwing) B. garrulus, which breeds in northern Eurasia and N. America and wanders widely in winter.

cuss word (oh)



n [C] old-fashioned
a rude word that you use because you are angry