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Night owl   Listen
noun
night owl  n.  A person who likes to be active late at night.
Synonyms: nighthawk, nightbird.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Night owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... sign is when the cep plui sings near the encampment. The Sakais consider it quite as unlucky as the grating screech of the night owl (birds kept in awe by the Sakais as being in familiarity with the Evil Spirit) on the roof of a house, or the spilling of salt is believed to be in ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti

... love it so. Now, then, warriors, we go forth on the war-trail. One whoop all together before we start. Capital! Follow me, now, one behind the other. Not a sound! If one gets separated from the others let him give the cry of a night owl and the others will answer with the ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Night owl" :   nighthawk



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