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单词 whaup
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Definition of whaup in English:

whaup

noun (h)wɔːp
Scottish

  • A curlew.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There, the strains of the hymns all but drowned the chaffinches and the cries of the whaups.
    • The whaups were crying, but none came near him, though he looked hard for the bird that had spoken with him.
    • It was late March, 1890, and the whaups were crying a new spring over the braes of Mauricewood, when they brought out the men from the east face.
    • I must return, perhaps in the spring when whaups and laverocks call on a warm wind.
    • A bird known as the whaup is, in fact, the curlew, a long-beaked bird which you can find online in pictures.

Origin

Mid 16th century: imitative of the bird's cry.

Rhymes

dorp, gawp, scaup, scorp, Thorpe, warp, yawp
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