whewer

/hwjuːə/

Etymology

Century, Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and the 1933 OED take it to be from whew (“(to make) a shrill whistling sound like the cry of a plover”) + -er, and early cites also call the bird the "whistling widgeon".

noun

  1. whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope).“Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2”