Definitions for skua

skua sku·a

Spelling: [skyoo-uh]
IPA: /ˈskyu ə/

Skua is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

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

Definitions for skua

noun

  1. Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
  2. British. jaeger (def 1).

Origin of skua

1670-80; Faeroese skū(g)vur; cognate with Old Norse skūfr tassel, tuft, also skua (in poetry), akin to shove1

Examples for skua

The flight of the skua is stronger and more rapid than that of any other Gull.

skua gulls mysteriously appeared, snow petrels hovered along the rocky ridges and odd seals landed on the wind-raked harbour ice.

Few birds are so courageous in defence of their nests as the skua.

Masses of Adelie penguins and chicks constituted the main population, and skua gulls with eggs were also observed.

His special dish was penguins and skua gulls in cream sauce.

From the promontory came a cry: abrupt, strident—the hunger-note of a skua.

Attached to each rookery was a pair of skua gulls, who swooped down and quickly flew off with any eggs left for a moment untended.

More nimble than he, the skua evaded the blow, and caught him by the neck.

Giant petrels and skua gulls swarmed in flocks round the seals' and penguins' carcases.

But in that same instant the long beak of the skua caught it by the head.

Word Value for skua
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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