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seatie en · NOUN

Etymology

From seat + -ie.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, colloquial) Synonym of backie (“a ride on the back of a cycle”).
   • 'It's not a fair race,' said Ibrahim. 'Because whoever gives you a seatie always loses.' 2017, Hayley Long, The Nearest Faraway Place:
   • All those years of having Katie chase after him—please, Tommy, I want a seatie—with Mum's threats—you dare put her on that bike, Thomas, and so help me... But of course he'd never let his sister on his bike. 2015, Debbie McGowan, Raine O'Tierney, Christmas Craic and Mistletoe, page 302:

Forms

Synonyms

backie