teeackn.
/ˈtiːək/ Orkney dialect.
= lapwing n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing)
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1869 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys (ed. 2) v. 194 The plaint of teeacks..blended finely with the shrill pipings of shore-birds.
1884 D. W. Yair in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 7th Ser. 248 Teeocks, bleatin', skimmed alang.
1909 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. II. i. 29 Like a doo or a teaoo.
1927 H. Campbell Jean's Garden 26 The teeoos crying ower the brecks.
1969 G. M. Brown Orkney Tapestry 97 That's a plover... There's a teeack.
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