The practice of observing whales and other cetaceans in their natural habitat.

plural of whale tail

plural of whacko

(marine biology) A whale of the Odontoceti suborder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others.

(US, informal) intoxicated / (US, informal) wacky, crazy

plural of full whack

(obsolete, poetic) The sea, the ocean.

(poetic) The sea(s), the ocean(s).

A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) The European curlew; called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup. / (UK, Scotland, dialect) The whimbrel; called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.