Meanings
nounpictarnie (plural pictarnies)
plural pictarnies
- ScotlandobsoleteA sea bird, the great tern.
“It's a pictarnie, sir, ” said Edie
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
Origin
Diminutive of Scottish pictarne.
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pictarnie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pictarnie
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“pictarnie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pictarnie. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pictarnie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pictarnie.
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