blowie

"I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."

I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie.

There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies, and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.