teuchit

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English

Noun

teuchit (plural teuchits)

  1. Alternative form of tewit
    • 1899, Gavin Greig, Logie O'Buchan: An Aberdeenshire Pastoral of Last Century, page 184:
      There were the fields over which as a boy he had wandered to pluck the gowan or seek for teuchits’ nests ; there the long stretches of breezy heather, and the low- lying moss where he had helped to dig and wheel the peats[.]
    • 1951, Nancy Brysson Morrison, The hidden fairing: a novel, page 203:
      He saw from the twigs on the ground that a gale had been blowing, and knew it would be the teuchit-storm on which the teuchit, or green plover, is blown home.
    • 2012, Robin Hull, Scottish Mammals, →ISBN:
      The new century brought my seventieth birthday, on which Gillian gave me a watercolour of a lapwing, or teuchit, with her chick by local artist Keith Brockie.