titihoya, noun

/tɪtiˈhɔjə/
Plurals:
titihoyas, ‖amatitihoya/amatɪtiˈhɔjə/.
Origin:
IsiZuluShow more IsiZulu, echoic.
In KwaZulu-Natal: the black-winged plover Stephanibyx melanopterus of the Charadriidae; the cry of this bird.
1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country 13The forlorn crying of titihoya, one of the birds of the veld.
1954 F.J. Edmonstone Thorny Harvest 12The plaintive cries of the titihoya came drifting across the veld.
1969 A. Paton Kontakion 20Many a time I walked over the hills..sometimes in a world of mist, through grass and bracken,..hearing the titihoya.
1978 McLachlan & Liversidge Roberts Birds of S. Afr. 174Blacked-winged Plover Stephanibyx melanopterus...Voice: Has a fine vocabulary of curses and varied pitch and intensity rising to high screams, ‘che-che-che-cherek’ and ‘titihoya’.
1980 A. Paton Towards Mountain 86Much of the beauty of the Ixopo countryside has gone, because the grass and bracken and rolling hills and the rich farms have in large part given way to endless plantations of gums and wattle and pine, and the titihoya does not cry there anymore.
the black-winged plover Stephanibyx melanopterus of the Charadriidae; the cry of this bird.
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