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whaup, n. Sc. and north.|hwɔːp, hwɑːp|
Forms: 6 quha(i)p, 7 whoup, 7–9 whap, 8–9 whaap, 8– whaup, (8 whape, wap, 9 whawp, quhaup).
[Perhaps for *whalp and allied to OE. huilpe (Seafarer 21), = early WS. *hwielpe:— *χwalpjon-, f. χwalp- : χwelp- a stem imitative of the bird's cry, and represented also in LG. regenwilp, -wölp sandpiper, WFris. (greate) wylp curlew (reen-, wetterwylp, lytse wylp Numenius phæopus), Du. wulp, wilp curlew. (WFris. wettergulp, LG. regengilp show a variant with g.) The dial. name curlew-help may be for *curlew-whelp, and so attest the former existence of a variant *whelp; but cf. the form hilpe (1530 in Ancestor XI. 179).]
The larger curlew, Numenius arquata.
Also † great whaup, stock whaup (see stock n.1 64).
1538Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 92 A quhap that is greitt xij d. 1553Ibid. 185 The best quhaip viij d. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 39 Quhilk gart the quhapis for fleyitnes fle far fra hame. 1683A. Garden in Macfarlane's Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) II. 133 The Whap also uses to be eaten. 1733T. Gifford Zetland Isl. (1786) 26 Wild fowl..such as pluvers, whapes. 1793Statist. Acc. Scot. V. 188 The wild land fowls are plovers, pigeons, curlews, (commonly called whaap). 1839Stoddart Songs & P. 18 An' his dirges lang and dreary Pipes the grey whaup to the morn. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxxix, Not so much as a whaup came near me on that great, wide, dappled hill. |