Definition of Lungie

1. n. A guillemot.

Definition of Lungie

1. Noun. (UK Scotland dialect) A guillemot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lungie

1. a diving bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Lungie

1. A guillemot. Alternative forms: longie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungie

lungee
lungees
lungeing
lungeing cavesson
lungeing rein
lungeing reins
lungen
lunger
lungers
lunges
lungfish
lungfishes
lungful
lungfuls
lungi
lungie (current term)
lungies
lunging
lungis
lungless
lungless salamander
lunglessness
lunglike
lungo
lungoor
lungoors
lungpower
lungs
lungsful
lungworm

Literary usage of Lungie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reminiscences of the Royal Burgh of Haddington and Old East Lothian by John Martine (1883)
"At faction time lungie had got on the spree, and rising from the loom one day " dour dry," without his coat, went into the Bell Inn, where some of the craft ..."

2. The Antiquary by Walter Scott (1878)
"... "ance in my life, and mony a kitty- wake's and lungie's nest hae I harried up amang thae very black rocks; but it's lang, lang syne, and nae mortal ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... and lungie'a nest hae I harried np amang thae very black rocks. Antiquary, i. 162. "All the earle of Northumberland—cam ..."

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