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Birds are great (lemmy.ca)
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[–] funkless@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean the other names make sense with additional context

Both Tit- and Cock- as prefixes used to mean small (no laughing in the back, please)

And Hoary means grey-haired or old-looking

edit as I had to look this one up: "Booby" is an ellision of "Bobo" - as in "No seas tan bobo" (Spanish) - meaning "silly, naive, dumb..." as they tend to be quite tame birds

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't bobo also mean stupid or idiot in Tagalog?

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Probably , because so much Spanish is Infused into Tagalog