piet
English edit
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Etymology edit
From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.
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Noun edit
piet (plural piets)
- (now Ireland, UK regional) The magpie.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat […].
- 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:
- Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
See also edit
- piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, coincidentally also a bird!)
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pes, pedem.
Noun edit
piet m (plural pietz)
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Noun edit
piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)
- VIP, important person
- Synonym: pief
- Synonym of Zwarte Piet
- canary
- Synonym: kanariepiet
- (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) [louse]]
- (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis
Derived terms edit
- pietje-precies (see list at pietje)
- piet snot
Finnish edit
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piet
- nominative plural of piki
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piet
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Noun edit
piet m (plural piets)
- Alternative form of pied