whaup

American  

[hwahp, hwawp, wahp, wawp] / ʰwɑp, ʰwɔp, wɑp, wɔp /

noun

Scot.

1. a curlew, Numenius arquata.

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whaup British  

/ hwɔːp, wɔːp /

noun

1. a popular name for the curlew

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Etymology

Origin of whaup

1505–15; perhaps representing earlier *whalp, akin (by gradation) to Old English hwilpe plover

Example Sentences

Say Mistress Blair, ye ill-mennered whaup atyar," says I in his lug; an' he gleyed roond at me, an' says, wi' anither o' his vegabon'-like winks, "Ay; that's Wattie Scott's monniment, Bawbie.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

But Moses is a fooshinless, hingin'-aboot kind o' a whaup," says I. "The blame's mibby no' a' on ae side o' the hoose.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

Seldom did human foot tread the heather of that glen in the days before Donald took up his abode there; to the raven and the mountain-fox, the muir-fowl and the whaup, alone belonged that kingdom.

From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie

Here is the first list; it lengthened speedily: thistle, tartan, haar, haggis, kirk, claymore, parritch, broom, whin, sporran, whaup, plaid, scone, collops, whiskey, mutch, cairngorm, oatmeal, brae, kilt, brose, heather.

From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)