calloo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitative of its call.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calloo (plural calloos)
- (chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
- 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section 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 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:
- 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
[edit]long-tailed duck — see long-tailed duck