calloo
English
Etymology
Imitative of its call.
Pronunciation
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Noun
calloo (plural calloos)
- (chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, IV:
- This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.
- 2012, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette, 8 Jan 2012:
- The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, IV:
Translations
long-tailed duck — see long-tailed duck