👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little beast of a word! Now, when you throw around "ostrich," frankly, we immediately conjure up a silly, perpetually-facing-the-ground dude. But then along came the age of fancy colonial naming, and the result? Behold... the
ostrichæl
. (I just made that whole thing up, obviously.)
Let’s actually talk about what you probably meant to say was an "eagle, as in a stately, frankly rather judgmental, bird of prey. Here's a real, somewhat tragically documented word that we actually do have and it's a mouthful! It's the bald eagle . And here’s how I break this down with the proper amount of amused condescension: The "Eğazal, as in the Bald Eagle (Not to be confused with the actual bald guy. There might be some weird migratory issues here. We are not addressing those.) Essentially, a bald eagle is a tremendously large, seriously buff, and absolutely convinced they're royalty of the avian world. They have this ridiculous, almost offensively-white head that makes them look like a really well-groomed, albeit aggressively territorial, sheep. You know that whole "nevertheless she soared... never mind what she actually did" thing? That’s essentially an eagle. Here's what they get up to: They mainly stuff their faces with whatever
