Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
piet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The magpie. See
piet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland and northern UK A
magpie ; a water ouzel.
Etymologies
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From pie + -et.
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Examples
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The bird in question might, however, be more properly called, as Bewick calls it, 'water pyot,' or water magpie, for only its back and wings are black, -- its head brown, and breast snow white.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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"Poor old chap!" he said to one perched high on an old stump, "wouldn't you like to have one sniff of a sea-breeze, and a look round for a sea-pyot or two?
Macleod of Dare William Black 1869
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