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oonts

oonts is the plural of oont.

Meaning of oont

Noun

oont (plural oonts)

  1. (Australia, British, India, colloquial) A camel.
    • Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont [footnote: Camel:—oo is pronounced like u as in...1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Oonts (North India Transport Train)”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 27

Questions about oonts

What is oonts the plural of?
Oonts is the plural of oont.

Words near oonts in the dictionary

  1. Oonah
  2. oonopid
  3. oonopids
  4. oons
  5. oont
  6. oonts
  7. oontz
  8. oontzy
  9. oonuclei
  10. oonucleus
  11. oonuh

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