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

"We're neither whaup nor deer," said she, shrugging her shoulders, "to live here wild the rest of our days."

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

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)

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

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.

"Turn ye to the west," said the whaup, "and let the sun fail on your face; then turn ye five times round about and say after me the Rune Of the Heather and the Dew."

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John