tip-stretcher results!

[Pierre Abbat]

>Rev. Mr. Cote: {A bird?  Why would that be a tip-stretcher?  Orioles
>have distinctive deep bag-shaped nests, but so what?  Perhaps their
>call?  I don't know what an oriole sounds like.  But then, I have no
>idea why a gray jay is called a whiskey jack either, and I recently
>heard another name for a whippoorwill that puzzled me.  So I like this
>definition, it sounds to me like the kind of word Elliott might pick.
>But I made this definition up.}

It's a variant of whiskey john, which is from Cree wiskatjan, according to OED,
or wiskaçan, IIRR, according to AHD.

phma