pirrie
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare Scots pirr (“a gentle breeze”).
Noun edit
pirrie (plural pirries)
- (obsolete) A strong gale.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- A pirrie came, and set my ship on sands.
References edit
- “pirrie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.