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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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungie
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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