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piet, pyet, pyot Chiefly (now only) Sc. and north. dial.|ˈpaɪət|
Forms: 3, 6–7 piot, 5–9 pyot, (6 -ott), 6–9 pyet, pyat, (9 -att), (8 peyet), 9 piet, (piat).
[In ME. piot, f. pie n.1 + -ot1, in later use written with better known suffix -et1: cf. F. piette the dipper, dim. of pie magpie.]
1. The magpie: = pie n.1 1.
a1225Ancr. R. 88 Ane kikelot [MS. C. piot] þet cakeleð hire al þat heo isihð, oðer ihereð. c1450Holland Howlat 176 Thar was Pyotis and Partrikis and Pluwaris. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxii. 16 The pyet..Fenȝeis to sing the nychtingalis not. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 89 The piottis and nicht-crawis faucht with the ravinnis. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. v, The pratling pyet matchis with the Musis. 1601Holland Pliny I. 301 The Piot ordinarily brings forth nine Piannets. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, Here cometh the worthy prelate, as pert as a pyet. 1829Cunningham Magic Bridle in Anniversary 138 Words specked and spotted like a pyat.
b. The dipper or water-ouzel. Also water-piet.
1839Jardine Brit. Birds II. 67 The common Water Crow, or Pyet, as it is familiarly termed in Scotland. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 30 Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus)... The white breast and blackish upper plumage have caused it to be called Piet... Water piet (Scotland).
2. A piebald horse.
1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 27 The Duke of Marlborough had a sett of peyets, very prettily marked.
3. fig. (from 1). Applied to a talkative or saucy person. Cf. tale-piet, tattler, tell-tale. (Sc.)
1574Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 372 Archie Crosar callit the Pyott. 1814Chalmers Let. in Hanna Mem. I. 340 From the great officers of State at St. James's,..down to the little female piets who were taught to squall what they did not understand, ‘No fanatics!’ 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘A pawky young pyet’, a saucy young person.
4. attrib.
a. Resembling a magpie in appearance; pied, piebald.
1508Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 114 Ane pyot hors giffin to the King. c1843Carlyle Hist. Sk. (1898) 256 Thirteen score of volunteer guards-royal..all in..beautiful pyet plumage.
b. Like a magpie; chattering.
1573Satir. Poems Reform. xlii. 82 Quhen ȝe ȝourselfis ar daft and ȝoung, And hes nocht but ane Pyat toung.
Hence ˈpiety, ˈpiotie, ˈpyoty a. Sc., piebald.
1811W. Aiton Agric. Surv. Ayrs. 462 (Jam.) The butter will acquire a freckled or cloudy appearance, or in the language of the district, become pyotty. 1825Jamieson, Pyat, Pyatie, Pyotie, Pyotty.., variegated like a magpie,..as, ‘a pyatie horse’, one whose skin has large spots of white, completely separated from those of black, brown, etc. |