arrie
English edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately onomatopoeic from the bird's cry, the name may have entered English via Russian; it is also used by the Aleuts.[1]
Noun edit
arrie (plural arries)
- (Alaska) A murre or guillemot.
- 1953, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of game animals: an account of those land animals ...:
- Now this pioneer naturalist goes on to tell us that the shell of the arrie's egg is of such remarkable strength, that it will stand rough handling that would in a moment destroy ordinary eggs;
References edit
- ^ Henry W. Elliott, A monograph of the Seal-Islands of Alaska (1882)
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Noun edit
arrie (plural arries)
- (obsolescent) Alternative form of airie
References edit
- “arrie, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.