gaper
Example Sentences
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“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
“This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird—the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon.”
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
I want a few trogons, and the blue-billed gaper.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
