calloo

Imitative of its call.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈluː/

calloo (plural calloos)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, IV:

     This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [transl. allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.

   • 2012, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette, 8 Jan 2012:

     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.

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