What's the difference between kookaburra and kooky?

Kookaburra


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  • (1) The Kookaburras were undone by a 7th minute goal from Alex Casasayas, who put away a cross from Marc Salles.
  • (2) The galah and kookaburra displayed a mammalian (non-villous) pattern of mucosal organization.
  • (3) Shiels said the preponderance of pigeons, seagulls and kookaburras in Australia sometimes obscured the fraught conditions facing native birdlife.
  • (4) Made by the corporation's Bristol-based Natural History Unit, each 30-minute episode will see Backshall travel across the world exploring the habitats of animals including scorpions, hunting dogs, stingrays, tiger snakes, red back spiders, kookaburras, sloth bears and giant centipedes.
  • (5) Fractionated samples of the soluble S-carboxymethyl proteins from kookaburra beak (Frenkel and Gillespie 1976) were examined by equilibrium sedimentation.
  • (6) Detailed chromatographic electrophoretic and compositional studies of the proteins of kookaburra beak reveal them to be a family of closely related proteins with only limited heterogeneity, in contrast to mammalian keratin systems.
  • (7) The major kookaburra beak fraction is similar in overall composition and molecular weight to fowl epidermal scale, kookaburra claw and turtle scute proteins and shows some resemblance to reptile claw protein.
  • (8) In laughing kookaburra ovomucoid third domain we found (in 91% of the molecules) Gln5A, which we interpret as arising from ambiguous intron excision at the 3' end of the F intron.
  • (9) Having just scraped past New Zealand in their first game, the Kookaburras will need to bounce back quickly against Belgium on Tuesday.

Kooky


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  • (1) If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you.
  • (2) The truth: This is clever and kooky music, but obviously miles from the Kooks .
  • (3) They all followed a similar template: remember the kooky, pudding-bowl kid from About a Boy ?
  • (4) Instead, let’s focus on the Republican argument that this is a kooky misunderstanding.
  • (5) That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion.
  • (6) It's similarly disingenuous to pretend that this is a matter of a few, kooky individuals (albeit ones at the top of the Ukip hierarchy).
  • (7) Giannini's first since becoming a mother, it demonstrated two things: how she is a perfect fit for this most Italian of brands, and the move of fashion's focus from the warehouses and kooky references of London fashion week to the high-class hotels and all-out glamour of Milan.
  • (8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
  • (9) All of us can point to the kooky one, the dumb one, the OCD one in our own friendship groups.
  • (10) Perfection is out and kooky is in, say observers, and to stand out on the catwalk now you need more than a conventionally pretty face and a stick-thin physique.
  • (11) more words from the Guardian's chief pop critic Alexis Petridis Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon All its idiosyncracies of songwriting and arrangement and delivery feel meant: unlike some of the artists to whom she's been compared, you're never struck by the sensation Mvula is killing herself to appear kooky that man Alexis Petridis yet again Rudimental – Home There are impressive contributions, including one from the reliably fearsome Angel Haze, but the band's roving sensibilities – garage, house, R&B – don't always come together.
  • (12) Far less so than is normal even in the kooky looking-glass world of film.
  • (13) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
  • (14) "That makes me sound disrespectful," he says, "but I just think of these people as my kooky distant relatives," he says.
  • (15) There is an outside chance, in a film, that the heroine might be kooky or her best friend might make funny faces.
  • (16) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • (17) Displaying other talents, or having a unique selling point – whether that means being kooky and cute, showing a rare openness on social media like Delevingne, or taking on a different persona outside of modelling, such as Jourdan Dunn and her baking – helps audiences around the globe to connect, encouraging brands and designers to seek out and employ these women.
  • (18) Yet despite her own version of the hat and the waistcoat – the dyed fringe, the occultish homemade tattoos – Claire insists that Grimes is not a kooky persona that she slips on and off with her rings.
  • (19) It seemed so obvious, but everybody else seemed to think I was kooky."
  • (20) Kooky play, Pagan is on second, and the inning continues!

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