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tui

tui

1 9.9
A bird from New Zealand with shiny feathers and a lovely song
  • noun
  • /tuːi/
  • New Zealand
: tui
  • Ryan, meet Savannah Tui, homicide detective.

Examples

  • come on in tui

    Love Me Deadly (1973)

  • Everyone scrambled to get out as a couple of tui dive-bombed the bird, but there needn't have been the rush as we soon had it in the scope and everyone had ample time to study the bird.

    Blog text (32)

  • It's Tui here, and I am happy to be hosting our challenge again this week.

    Blog text (1)

  • It's a call from the ancestors, Tui.

    Moana 2 (2024)

  • The line art elements are showing up correctly in PuTTY when I launch authconfig-tui or tmux, with the small issue that the vertical line is not the complete length of the character space.

    Blog text (3)

  • TUI :

    Moana (2016)

  • TUI :

    Moana (2016)

  • TUI :

    Moana (2016)

  • TUI :

    Moana (2016)

  • The tui is known for its beautiful, melodious call that can be heard in New Zealand's forests.

How Melodious

nightingale
  • UK
14 4.4
tui
  • New Zealand
1 9.9
blackbird
  • US
4 2.7

Surface Forms

tui singular
tuis plural

Etymology

The word tui comes from the Māori name tūī, and it probably copies the bird's clear, two-note call like 'tui-tui'. So the name sounds like the bird itself, which helps you remember that a tui is the singing New Zealand bird.