Meaning of moha moha | Babel Free

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A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail.

no-plural

Examples

“1891, S. Lovell, "Tempus omnia monstra", in Land⟳ and Water, London, 3 March⟳ 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who was unable to obtain⟳ the original and so quotes from Bernard Heuvelmans, In the Wake⟳ of the Sea-Serpents, 1968, who in turn⟳ apparently quotes from Antoon C. Oudemans, The Great Sea-Serpent, 1892). Native blacks call⟳ it 'Moka, moka' and say⟳ they like⟳ to eat⟳ it, and that it has legs and fingers.”

“1891, S. Lovell, "Land⟳ and Water", 25 April 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith from Heuvelmans etc). The blacks, who had not seen it the day I did, named it at once from my sketch⟳, which must, therefore, be pretty accurate, and called it 'Moha, Moha', and laughed and said, 'Saucy Fellow, Meebee' – in English, 'dangerous turtle'.”

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