Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gemmous dragonet.
- noun The gray gurnard.
- noun The golden-eyed duck, Clangula glaucion. Also
gowdie-duck . - noun A cow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Scot. See
dragont .
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- noun dialect The European goldfinch.
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Examples
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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
Sheelicks 1996
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Else it's heels o'er gowdie fer the woolen business. "
All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900
hernesheir commented on the word gowdie
The goldfinch. Scots.
May 19, 2011