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Night owl   /naɪt aʊl/   Listen
Night owl

noun
1.
A person who likes to be active late at night.  Synonyms: nightbird, nighthawk.






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"Night owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the night of weird things tinged with our friend's strange superstition and curious lore. Outside the coyotes howl, far away on the plain, and the mournful cry of the tecolote, or Mexican night owl, faintly reaches my ears, as, wrapped in my blankets with a saddle for a pillow, I fall asleep upon the ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... ain't mistook. I've hunted 'coons an' 'possums at night too much to be mistook about shadders. I reckon, if I may say so, shadders is my specialty, me bein' somethin' o' a night owl. As shore as I'm standin' here, leftenant, and as shore as you're settin' there on your hoss, a mounted man come to the edge of that wood an' stayed thar a while, watchin' us. I'd have follered him, but ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler



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