Word: tsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rice onto a dark tabletop, estimating the number of grains with one glance, then checking their estimate by careful count.) Artificial aids to attract birds and flush them from the underbrush are legitimate. Many birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn to give lifelike imitations of the screech owl's eerie, fluty tremolo. Others carry the Audubon Bird Call-a tiny birchwood tube in which they rotate a pewter plunger: it squeaks like crazy. Latest gadget is a 98? plastic "bird" with a trombone slide that...
Wyman stated, "I don't simply mean to say tsk tsk to these men. "This business is not McCarthyism; we are completely fair. These people are not being smeared as Communists...