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From hell + kite, with the rapacious implication of kite (“bird of prey”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From hell + kite, with the rapacious implication of kite (“bird of prey”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.