Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The gemmous dragonet.
- n. The gray gurnard.
- n. The golden-eyed duck, Clangula glaucion. Also gowdie-duck.
- n. A cow.
Wiktionary
- n. dialect The European goldfinch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.), Scot. See dragont.
Examples
“Glossary: sheelicks: husked grain riddle: sieve ben: in helster-howdie: from "heels ower gowdie"; head-over-heels teuchit: lapwing tint: lost barra-shaft: handle of a wheelbarrow chiel: man min't: reminded hurled: driven, carried, hauled marra: equal”
“Else it's heels o'er gowdie fer the woolen business. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gowdie’.
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Dr. Jamieson's Birds
A rich list of Scottish bird (nick)names and related terms cited in Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
stone-chatter, clocharet, bowger, coulter-neb, branchers, brissel-cock, turkey-cock, brongie, bubblyjock, polliecock, bullfit, bullfrench and 220 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gowdie.
hernesheir The goldfinch. Scots. May 19, 2011