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† glunimie Sc. Obs.
Also glune-amie, glunyieman.
[Prob. a corruption of some Gaelic phrase often heard from Highlanders.]
A Lowland name for a Highlander.
a1745W. Meston Poet. Wks. (1767) 115 Upon a time.. Some Glunimies met at a fair, As deft and tight as ever wore A durk, a targe and a claymore. 1825Jamieson, Glunyieman, a rough unpolished boorish-looking man, a term generally applied to a Highlander. Banffs. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iii, And he is but half a Highlander neither, and wants a thought of the dour spirit of a Glune-amie. |