whidding

The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824