Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brownish-green New Zealand parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A parrot of the genus Nestor, peculiar to New Zealand. The common kaka is N. hypopolius, and the mountain kaka N. notabilis. See
Nestor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the
brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis ). - noun (Zoöl.) The kakapo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of four
taxa ofbirds in thegenus Nestor in theparrot family confined toNew Zealand and adjacent islands.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word 'cake' is said to have coined as early as 13th century and is said to have derived from 'kaka' - an Old Norse word.
Recent Activity 2010
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Udinese - Milan sam: kaka kaka - cheeky backheel gone to waste Copa Del Rey Champions! sid: The key to piercing the bus is having midfielders shooting from long range.
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However, having paid an amazing £100 million on 'Buy It Now' - shattering the prior fee record for any player - the club were despondent to be sent a bucket of fresh horse 'kaka' instead.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009
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However, having paid an amazing £100 million on 'Buy It Now' - shattering the prior fee record for any player - the club were despondent to be sent a bucket of fresh horse 'kaka' instead.
Man City Fall for eBay Scam Dungeekin 2009
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Their father's friend then introduced them to a new intermediary, calling him their "kaka" (uncle).
Mohammad Razai: from child Afghan asylum seeker to Cambridge undergraduate 2010
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There is also a very rare and as yet unnamed kind of kaka, much larger and handsomer than the kaka itself, of which I and another shot one of the first, if not the very first, observed specimen.
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We have a great support staff, Kirsten and Paddy Upton, Nitin Patel (physio), Ramesh Mane 'kaka' (masseur), Ramji (trainer) and Dhananjai
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well, she just wrote me that the smell of "kaka," as she puts it, almost made her faint and she's got a headache because of it heheeh nurses get paid...
Human lungs, breathing. Ann Althouse 2009
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Somebody took a little food and left it outside for the crows -- a ritual called "kaka shadham", or "crows' rice", in Tamil, to return part of the food to nature.
Deepa S. Iyer: The Sacred Act Of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual Deepa S. Iyer 2011
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Somebody took a little food and left it outside for the crows -- a ritual called "kaka shadham", or "crows' rice", in Tamil, to return part of the food to nature.
Deepa S. Iyer: The Sacred Act Of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual Deepa S. Iyer 2011
reesetee commented on the word kaka
Any of several New Zealand parrots of the genus Nestor, especially N. meridionalis,, with predominantly greenish and olive-brown plumage.
February 8, 2008
yarb commented on the word kaka
Also a Brazilian footballer.
February 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kaka
But never both in the same body.
Also k�?k�?.
February 9, 2008