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pickˈmaw Sc. and north. dial.
Also 9 Northumb. picki-maw.
[Second element maw3, gull; first uncertain (some conjecture pick, pitch).]
A common name in Scotland of the Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus: see gull n.1
c1450Holland Howlat 183 Parfytlye thir Pikmawis, as for priouris, With thar party habitis present tham thar. 1805A. Scott Poems (1808) 224 The lav'rock, the peasweep, an' skirlin pickmaw. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxv, The very pick-maws and solan-geese out-by yonder at the Bass hae ten times their sense! 1894Northumbld. Gloss. 529 Peewit Gull..also called sea crow, and pick-i'-ma [on p. 533 erron. picima]. |