pirrie

English

Alternative forms

• pirry

Etymology

Compare Scots pirr (“a gentle breeze”).

Noun

pirrie (plural pirries)

1. (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

• “pirrie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.