lintie

By these remarks I mean to express the feeling that the word lintie conveys to my mind more of tenderness and endearment towards the little songster than linnet.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

But still worse is it for that poor thrush, or lintie, or robin, or warbler-wren, if he flutters in his bosom when he spies that cat, and sets up his feathers, and begins to hop about, making a sad little chirp to his mate, and appealing to the sky to protect him and his family.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

The green birken shades, where the wild lintie dwells,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

And the grey breasted lintie reply from the thorn;

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 Various

Now I never let on that I saw any of them, but went by them with my briskest town step and my head in the air, whistling like a lintie --

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

“Eh, Maister Shaw,” he said, “if ye'll jist do it, I hae a fine lintie the noo, and if ye'll do it, I'll gie ye the lintie.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

She was a noble woman, and you're but a heather lintie of a lass to come of a good kind.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

Protected from suspicion, her spirits rose all the cheerier for their temporary depression, and she went singing about the house like a _lintie_.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

But still worse is it for that poor thrush, or lintie, or robin, or warbler-wren, if he flutters in his bosom when he spies that cat, and sets up his feathers, and begins to hop about, making a sad little chirp to his mate, and appealing to the sky to protect him and his family.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

At last she was roused out o't, but naebody ever saw her laugh after; and frae ane that was as cantie as a lintie, she became as douce as a Quaker, though she aye gaed cannily about her wark, as if amaist naething had happened.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824