(n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
(n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
(a.) Senseless; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) All detectable anatomical structures are identified and set into relationship to discernable structures in cockatoos (Cacatua galerita galerita), common buzzards (Buteo buteo) and mynah birds (Gracula religiosa).
(2) Only 1 campylobacter isolate could be recovered from altogether 54 birds of prey although 16 Buzzards (Buteo buteo) were investigated as nestlings.
(3) The diagnosis and treatment of a case of lead poisoning in a honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) are described.
(4) Other commuter hubs at the southern end of the line, including Northampton , Hemel Hempstead and Leighton Buzzard, are promised similar benefits.
(5) 8 buzzards (Buteo buteo) were infected orally with cysts of Frenkelia clethrionomyobuteonis of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus).
(6) Electroretinograms (ERG) under dark and bright adaptation as well as flicker ERGs were recorded from 15 common buzzards, and normograms were established.
(7) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
(8) The local Friends of the Earth group in Leighton Buzzard, of which I am a member, had to threaten direct action even to get display boards erected for the bus timetables and then had to put in timetables and do displays themselves as the council did not have the budget for marketing.
(9) Frostbite and actinic damage, abrasions of the nipples, collisions with vehicles and injuries by buzzards are further possible incidents to be reckoned with occasionally.
(10) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(11) The gross and histological lesions of a protozoan infection, possibly caused by Leucocytozoon, in parakeets (genera Neophema and Cyanoramphus), budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and a wild buzzard (Buteo buteo) are described.
(12) Why, you might ask, aren’t they marvelling over how one can get to Bletchley on the train in four minutes, Leighton Buzzard in 11 minutes, Cheddington in 17?
(13) I have never felt such a palpable sense of anger from the public as has been shown over Defra's plans for a pilot project remove buzzards and destroy their nests in order to protect pheasants released by shooting estates.
(14) In contrast, no induction was found in buzzard under the same conditions.
(15) The UK’s biggest operating energy storage system is an £18m battery plant installed by UK Power Networks (UKPN) at Leighton Buzzard, a growing Bedfordshire town.
(16) Monooxygenase activities were not very different apart from a high 7-ethoxycoumarin de-ethylase activity in quail as compared to buzzard.
(17) In the weeks after the latest stalemate, these fears seemed to be borne out by a gamekeeper seeking permission to protect the pheasants he breeds by “controlling” buzzards.
(18) A general survey of Common Buzzard optic structures suggest a certain preponderancy of tectofugal system on thalamofugal system.
(19) The boomerang triumph can be traced back to a single company in Leighton Buzzard whose own general manager is at pains to stress “Boomerangs are obviously not exactly a huge market” , while the naans-to-India bit is a reference to one baker in Dunstable who has invested in a factory outside Mumbai.
(20) Shortly after 8am, James Linacre, a financial journalist, boarded at Leighton Buzzard, one stop closer to Euston, and glanced briefly down the carriage before squatting to sit cross-legged in the floor next to one of the doors.
Curmudgeonly
Definition:
(a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may seem curmudgeonly to sprinkle our meagre daily measure of praise upon the negation of something: the fact that a plan is not going ahead.
(2) " But Lindsay was also a curmudgeon, and he could be very difficult at times.
(3) Riva is not being curmudgeonly (well, not much), but it is easy to forget that she is not playing at being an octogenarian.
(4) The old curmudgeon might have to admit that his boy did pretty well here.
(5) Which is why every family should have at least one … Facebook Twitter Pinterest Placator or Curmudgeon?
(6) Any English speaker who has tried to tell (or fully understand) a joke in France will know the problem – just as some ancient Romans were well aware that the conquered Germans had different rules of laughter from their own ("The Germans don't laugh at vice", as one curmudgeonly Roman critic observed).
(7) The film has made converts of even the most curmudgeonly critics, grossing more than $531m (£327m) worldwide in its first four weeks.
(8) However, only the most curmudgeonly would deny that bouquets are due in particular to those who do not normally share the limelight, namely, the engineers, construction workers, architects and others who, in five years, have physically performed a modern miracle .
(9) A new Father of the Bride movie will see Steve Martin's curmudgeonly dad planning the upcoming nuptials of his gay son, according to reports on nikkifinke.com .
(10) Without appearing a curmudgeon, I worry that such kindness could be a thing of the past.
(11) "He had no education but was a very intelligent man, a great walker and birder, a curmudgeonly leftwing atheist who even back then wasn't homophobic or racist.
(12) We've grown so used to our curmudgeonly fictional coppers, whether in books or on screen, that it's easy to forget that Beck is the prototype for practically every portrayal of a policeman ever since, in this country, or America, or continental Europe.
(13) Now, that is no doubt all very exciting for texting tweenagers, and I don't want to come across here as a linguistically conservative, humourless and miserable curmudgeon.
(14) The Curmudgeon Moans and has a great line in sarcasm.
(15) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
(16) The organisers call the picture a manifesto and, looking at it, it becomes easier to see the, at first rather surprising, affinity the curmudgeonly bachelor discovered in this world of girliness and frills.
(17) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
(18) Meanwhile, Woody Allen continues to make movies, Bill Murray is a loveable but curmudgeonly old fella’ and Terry Richardson is a feted photographer.
(19) Even the most Friends-phobic curmudgeon has to admit that 10 years' toil on a popular sitcom will have honed Jennifer Aniston's comic chops.
(20) A club of such means does not usually inspire fondness from neutrals, but only a curmudgeon could fail to appreciate the accomplishment of City.