chuck-will's-widow • \chuck-willz-WID-oh\ • noun

: a nightjar (Caprimulgus carolinensis) of the southeastern United States

Example Sentence:
It was a cool, still night, and we could hear a chuck-will's-widow calling from over the hill.

Did you know?
The chuck-will's-widow is a nocturnal bird that can be found in the swamps, rocky uplands, and pine forests of southeastern United States and is often confused with its close relative, the whippoorwill. Like many of our other feathered friends, the chuck-will's-widow got its name through onomatopoeia: "chuck-will's-widow" imitates the sounds of the bird's call. Given that the bird will sometimes repeat its call up to 800 times without stopping, the imitative origin of its name is hardly surprising.

- Merriam-Webster online

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Good stuff, D. Allan. I suspect that you use all these terms in your daily life. Tell me, when someone carries on a conversation with you, does communication actually occur? My guess is that the whole transaction might end up being rather transblucent.

(There, do I get an A?)

Acually, I have very little daily life. Time flies so fast that life seems to be more weekly or monthly than daily. Then, again, it crawls along so slowly that only the seconds have reality, the minutes and hours so far in the future... let alone the days!!

So you see, I have very little time to be verbal. On a daily basis, that is. Is this obfuscation? Or so pellucid that nothing at all can be seen?

p.s. you get an a+