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单词 pictarnie
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pictarnien.

Brit. /pɪkˈtɑːni/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɑrni/, Scottish English /pɪkˈtarnɪ/, /pɪkˈtɔrnɪ/
Forms:

α. 1700s pickternie, 1700s–1800s pictarney, 1800s pitcarnie (irregular), 1800s– pictarnie, 1800s– pictarny, 1900s– picktarnie, 1900s– picktaurnie, 1900s– picternie, 1900s– pitarmie, 1900s– pitarnie.

β. 1800s pickaternie, 1800s picketarnie, 1900s– pickieterno, 1900s– pickitarnie.

γ. 1800s piccatarrie, 1900s– piccataurie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pictarne n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: < pictarne n. + -y suffix6.The β and γ forms show a diminutive of the first element (compare -y suffix6).
Scottish.
A tern (genus Sterna). Also (rare): the black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna paradisaea (arctic tern)
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1784 Gentleman's Mag. 54 506/1 To show the difference between names in Scotland and England... The Great Turn. I suppose our Pictarney.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 547 The birds of passage are pretty numerous. Among these..the pickternies..are the principal.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 211 ‘It's but a sea-maw.’ ‘It's a pictarnie, sir,’ said Edie.
1833 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (new ed.) 508 Common Tern..Provincial, Pirr..Tarney or Pictarney.
1835 D. Smith Emigrant's Farewell 17 Wild ducks and pictarnies may play on the stream.
1837 R. Dunn Ornithologist's Guide Orkney & Shetland 107 Picke-ta. Arctic Tern.
1899 Shetland News 14 Jan. (E.D.D.) The graceful and elegant tern, the ‘piccatarrie’ of our beaches and lochs.
1930 Weekly Scotsman 12 Apr. 4/7 These pugnacious birds, the Arctic and Sandwich terns, which visit the islands during the summer months, are named pickie-ternos.
1972 J. Ross Select. Caithness Dial. Words in D. Omand Caithness Bk. 253 Pictarnie, a bird, the tern.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Pickie-terno, a tern.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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