An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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PINKIE, _s._ The little finger, Loth.
Belg. _pink_, digitus minimus.
PINKIE, _s._ The weakest kind of table beer, S.
PINKIE, _s._ The smallest candle that is made, S.
O. Teut. _pincke_, cubicularis lucerna simplex.
PINNER, _s._
1. A female head-dress, having lappets pinned to the temples reaching down to the breast, and fastened there.
_Ramsay._
2. _A fleeing pinner_, such a head-dress, having the ends of the lappets hanging loose, Ang.
O. Fr. _pignoir_ seems to be synon.
PINNER-PIG, _s._
V. ~Pirlie-pig~.
PINNING, _s._ A small stone for filling a crevice in a wall, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Q. employed as a _pin_.
PINSEL, _s._ A streamer.
V. ~Pensel~.
PIN-THE-WIDDIE, _s._ A small dried haddock not split, Aberd. corruptly _penny-widdie_.
PINTILL-FISH, _s._ The Pipe-fish; or the Launce.
_Monroe._
PYOT, _s._ A magpie.
V. ~Pyat~.
PIPES. _To tune_ one's _pipes_, to cry, S.
_To_ PYRL, _v. n._ To p.r.i.c.k.
_Wallace._
Su. G. _pryl_, a long needle, _pryl-a_, stylo pungere.
_To_ PIRL, _v. n._ To whirl, S. A.
V. ~Birle~.
_J. Nicol._
PIRL-GRa.s.s, _s._ Creeping wheat-gra.s.s, S.
_Stat. Acc._
PIRLIE-PIG, PURLIE-PIG, _s._ A circular earthen vessel, which has no opening save a slit at the top, no larger than to receive a halfpenny; used by children for keeping their money, S. B. _Pinner-pig_, S. O.
Perh. q. _birlie-pig_, from A. S. _birl-ian_, to drink; as forming a common stock. _Pinner_ may be allied to Teut. _penne-waere_, merx; Dan. _penger_, money.
PIRN, _s._
1. A quill, or reed, S.
_Stat. Acc._
2. The yarn wound on a reed, S.
_Ruddiman._
3. _To wind_ one _a pirn_, to make a person repent his conduct.
_Ramsay._
4. _To redd a ravell'd pirn_, to clear up something difficult, or to get free of some entanglement, S.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
