pyat

See also: pyãt and pyät

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɑe.ət]

Noun

pyat (plural pyats)

1. A magpie.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Death of the Red Fox”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 161:

     [T]here's many a man would think this more of a warning than two pyats.

Descendants

• → Scottish Gaelic: pitheid

References

• “pyot”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.