arrie
English
Etymology
Ultimately onomatopoeic from the bird's cry, the name may have entered English via Russian; it is also used by the Aleuts.[1]
Noun
arrie (plural arries)
- (Alaska) A murre or guillemot.
- 1953, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of game animals: an account of those land animals ...:
- Now this pioneer naturalist goes on to tell us that the shell of the arrie's egg is of such remarkable strength, that it will stand rough handling that would in a moment destroy ordinary eggs;
References
- Henry W. Elliott, A monograph of the Seal-Islands of Alaska (1882)
Scots
References
- “arrie, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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