calloo

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English

Etymology

Imitative of its call.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /kəˈluː/

Noun

calloo (plural calloos)

  1. (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 Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "allit" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.] 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.

Translations

long-tailed duck — see long-tailed duck

Anagrams

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