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‖ wawa|ˈweɪwə|
Also 8 way-way.
[Cree wehwew goose (Lacombe Dict. Lang. des Cris); Odjibwa wêwe goose, wabwêwe white goose (Baraga Otchipwe Gram.). The current Eng. form of the word is wavey.]
An American-Indian name for the wild goose.
1768Phil. Trans. LX. 126 There are various sorts of the geese, as the grey-goose, the way-way, the brant, the dunter. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. ii. 162 When the Wawa has departed, When the wild-goose has gone southward. |