Judah’s Limerick
A school of brightly colored humuhumunukunukuapuaa
so said the dictionary quite casually like C for CAT and maybe B for BEEF
word of the day
humuhumunukunukuapuaa
[ hoo-moo-hoo-moo-noo-koo-noo-koo-ah-poo-ah-ah ] SHOW IPA
noun
either of two triggerfishes of Indo-Pacific coral reefs
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUAA?
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa is from Hawaiian humuhumu-nukunuku-ā-pua‘a. The humuhumu element means “triggerfish,” while nukunuku translates as “short, blunt” and “small snout,” ā means “like,” and pua’a means “pig.” Both humuhumu and nukunuku are reduplicated forms, same as the English terms bye-bye, chitchat, and itsy-bitsy. Humuhumunukunukuapuaa was first recorded in English in the mid-1860s.
EXAMPLE OF HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUAA USED IN A SENTENCE
A school of brightly colored humuhumunukunukuapuaa drifted idly by the reef.
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