whaup
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of whaup
1505–15; perhaps representing earlier *whalp, akin (by gradation) to Old English hwilpe plover
Example Sentences
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Haud you hand, your father slew a whaup.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Archie put four fingers in his mouth and emitted a scream as shrill as the scream of the great whaup.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
Indeed, not so much as a whaup came near me on that great, wide, dappled hill.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
As he ran he made ridiculous efforts to cry like a whaup in the hope of summoning the Die-Hards.
From Huntingtower by John Buchan
Let them think that ye can do every thing wi' the ministry; and if there should happen to be a whaup in the rape, let them even find it out theirsells.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
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