calloo

English

Etymology

Imitative of its call.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈluː/

Noun

calloo (plural calloos)

1. (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

long-tailed duck — see long-tailed duck

Anagrams

• alcool