U.S. Corrupt form of whip-ray (see WHIP- 1 c): cf. STINGAREE.
1891. Polk Co. (FL) News, 26 June, 1/1. We have on exhibition at this office the candal appendage of what is known to naturalists as a Whipperee.
1907. H. L. Brooks, in Albion (NE) Argus, 23 March, 1/2. It was as ‘flat as a flounder,’ and nearly as large across as a wash tub, with a tail about three feet long, which looked like a whip lash and which Geo. said was a whipperee.
