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Meaning of bonxie | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

ˈbɒŋk.si

Definitions

The great skua, Stercorarius skua.

Examples

“Bonxies are more than happy to fly at you as you walk harmlessly across the moors, and they regularly clip people with a wing or extended foot […]”

“It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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See also

Bony bony bream bony fish bony labyrinth bonyad bonyness

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