Noun: aasvogel
| Singular | aasvogel |
| Plural | aasvogels |
Sample Sentences
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As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist. [1912, H. Rider Haggard, Marie:]
Nouns inflected like aasvogel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans aasvogel (“vulture”) (obsolete form of aasvoël), from Dutch aasvogel, from aas (“carrion”) + vogel (“bird”). See: Dutch Nouns '
aasvogel'.