lungie
English
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editlungie (plural lungies)
- (UK, Scotland, archaic) A guillemot[1]
- 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- a kittywake's and lungie's nest
- A rectangular piece of cloth that is wrapped around a man's waist and tied to form a skirt-like garment, traditional in India and some other South Asian countries.
References
edit- ^ “lungie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.