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.
1768. Phil. Trans., LX. 126. There are various sorts of the geese, as the grey-goose, the way-way, the brant, the dunter.
1855. Longf., Hiaw., II. 162. When the Wawa has departed, When the wild-goose has gone southward.
