calloo

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/kəˈluː/(UK)

Definition of calloo

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(Scotland)The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.

“This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.”
“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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Imitative of its call.

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