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Definition of Bonxies
1. bonxie [n] - See also: bonxie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonxies
Literary usage of Bonxies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Reminiscences by Archibald Geikie (1904)
"In this way I was enabled to see the great cliffs of Foula well, and to watch
the movements of its ' bonxies ' or Great Skuas. With the view of protecting ..."
2. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"It's a birds'—and naturalists'—feast, inland as well, where rolling moorlands
are claimed by arctic and great skuas (known as bonxies), so fiercely ..."
3. The pirate. By the author of 'Waverley'. by Walter Scott (1826)
"The fowl are winging their way to the shore, and the shell-drake seems, through
the mist, as large as the scarf. See the very shearwaters and bonxies are ..."
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