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piet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpʌɪət/ (UK)

Etymology

From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, regional) The magpie.
   • Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are. 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:
   • We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

piet-my-vrou