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waup

waup is the alternative form of whaup.

Meaning of whaup

Noun

whaup (plural whaups)

  1. (Scotland) The curlew, Numenius arquata.
    • It looks eerie at bright midday, when the sun is shining and whaups are crying among the seaweeds; but think what it was on that awesome night, with the Powers of Darkness brooding over it like a cloud!1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Forms of waup

pluralwaups

Questions about waup

What is waup the alternative form of?
Waup is the alternative form of whaup.

Words near waup in the dictionary

  1. Waunarlwydd
  2. Wauneka
  3. Waunekas
  4. Waunfawr
  5. Waungron
  6. waup
  7. Waupaca
  8. Waupaca County
  9. waups
  10. Waura
  11. Waurika

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waup (page history and authors); whaup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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