Definitions for auks

auks auk

Spelling: [awk]
IPA: /ɔk/

Auks is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in auks (aksu).

Definitions for auks

noun

  1. any of several usually black-and-white diving birds of the family Alcidae, of northern seas, having webbed feet and small wings.

Origin of auks

1665-75; Scandinavian; compare Old Norse alka

Examples for auks

But there was a deplorable lack of information about the haunts and habits of the auk.

I feel, somehow, that this man Halyard has got an auk—perhaps two.

auk, is a term, in compound words of these dialects, denoting wood.

Of the latter some have three toes, as the penguin, auk, &c.; others have four.

Directly north of the latter island is Mendenhall Glacier, formerly known as the auk.

Of all the auk tribe, so far as my experience goes, the Puffin flies the most.

Tom Peregrine shot one a few years back; also a puffin, a bird with a parrot-like beak and of the auk tribe.

About three o'clock the Countess of auk's carriage was summoned, and the company began to retire.

Oolichuk continued this process until the first auk was finished.

Upon the whole, I thought it would not do to depend upon the auk.

Word Value for auks
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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