pictarnie

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English

Etymology

Diminutive of Scottish pictarne.

Noun

pictarnie (plural pictarnies)

(Scotland, obsolete) A sea bird, the great tern.
- 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. , volume (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

James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Pictarnie”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 830, column 2.

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