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piannet, pianet Now dial.|ˈpaɪənɛt|
Forms: 6–7 pieannet, pi-, pyannet, 6–9 pianot, 7 pie-annit, py-annot, pye-annat, pyanit; dial. 8 pianet, pynot, 9 pie-annet, piannot, pianet, pianate, pienet, etc.
[c gray][The first element is pie n.1; the second, in early examples, appears to be treated as orig. a distinct word, as if Annet or Annette, dim. of Ann; cf. the dial. synonym pie-nanny, and the etym. of maggot-pie, magpie, also from female names; but in mod. dial. use it is reduced to a mere suffix (ˈpaɪənɛt[/c], ˈpaɪnɛt), with which cf. F. pionet the spotted woodpecker (where -on-et is double dim. suffix). See also pienet.
(Annet alone occurs as a local name of the common gull, and of the kittiwake.)]
1. A local name of the magpie.
1599Chapman Hum. Dayes Myrth Plays 1873 I. 76 Nor would I haue..men..looke a snuffe like a piannets taile, for nothing but their tailes and formall lockes. 1601Holland Pliny I. 285 There haue been seen Pyannets with long tailes, party coloured and flacked. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman i. ii. v. (1635) 139 From the annoyance of Pye-annats, and such like great birds. 1618Latham 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633) 99 The Pie-annit, the brauing and chattering Iaye. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 249/2 A Mag-Pye..is termed a Pye and a Pye-Annat, from its cry or chattering note. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 50, I know Pynots ar os cunning Eawls os wawk'n oth' Yeorth. 1766Pennant Zool. I. 171 Pianet. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pyannet, Pynet, a magpie. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pianot, a magpie.
b. fig. Applied to a person: A chatterer.
1594W. Percy Sonn. Coelia v, Ho, Muses blab you? Not a word Pieannets, or I will gag you.
c. Comb.
1600Look About You vi. in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 408 Your pianot-chattering humour.
†2. Applied to the lesser spotted woodpecker [F. pionet]. Obs. (Perh. an error of Phillips.)
1706Phillips, Piannet, the lesser Wood-pecker, a Bird speckled with Black and White on the Wings. |