pictarnie
English edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Scottish pictarne.
Noun edit
pictarnie (plural pictarnies)
- (Scotland, obsolete) A sea bird, the great tern.
- 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:
- “It's a pictarnie, sir, ” said Edie
References edit
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Pictarnie”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 830, column 2.