单词 | williwaw |
释义 | williwaw|ˈwɪlɪwɔː| Also willy-, -ie-, wulli(e)-, wully-wa. [?] A sailor's (whaler's, etc.) name for a sudden violent squall, orig. in the Straits of Magellan.
1842J. D. Hooker in Life (1918) I. vi. 137 A squall or Williewaw, as they are called [round Cape Horn]. 1863FitzRoy Weather Bk. 125 note, Those whirlwind squalls, formerly called by the sealers in Tierra del Fuego, ‘willi⁓waws’. 1901Kipling Kim xiii, Where storm and wandering wullie-wa got up to dance. |

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