gooney bird

Questions about gooney bird

What does gooney bird mean?

gooney bird means "a variety of albatross with black feet".

What is another word for gooney bird?

Close synonyms include black-footed albatross, gooney, goonie, goony, Diomedea nigripes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gooney bird a common word?

gooney bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.