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Etymology
Imitative of its call.
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calloo (plural calloos)
- (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 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.
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