parkien.
/ˈpɑːki/, U.S. /ˈpɑrki/, Scottish English /ˈparkɪ/ colloquial (originally and chiefly Scottish).
A park-keeper.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > parkland > [noun] > land management or park-keeping > one who
curator1761
park ranger1820
parkie1871
land manager1909
park warden1936
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxix. 272 Tak' a girss parkie or twa an' trock aboot amo' nowte beasts.
1931 A. A. Macgregor Last Voy. St Kilda 256 This ploy ended abruptly when I realized that the ‘parkies’ were manoeuvring to capture me red-handed.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 587 Touching our Phoenix Rangers' nuisance at the meeting of the waitresses,..and those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock.
1971 Sunday Times 9 May 34 It's just coats on the ground and the parkies chase us at least once a month for doing something wrong.
1999 T. Lott White City Blue 198 A good old-fashioned parkie. I had thought they were extinct.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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