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单词 whaup
释义

whaup

/(h)wɔːp /
noun chiefly Scottish
A curlew.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.
  • 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

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