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scaurie Orkney and Shetland.|ˈskɔːrɪ|
Also scorey, scory, scourie, scowry, scurrie, skoray, scorie, sko(r)rie, skory.
[Scandinavian: cf. Norw. skaare (Aasen), ON. skáre.]
The young of any kind of gull.
a1795G. Low Fauna Orcadensis (1813) 122 The Brown and White Gull..Orc. Scory..is the scarcest of the Gull-kind in Orkney. 1805G. Barry Orkney Isl. 303 The Brown and White Gull..which the people here call the scorey, is much more rarely met with than most others. 1806P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetland 25 The Brough..is the resort and nursery of hundreds of scauries, or herring-gulls (larus fuscus). I believe the Orkney name scaurie is applied to this gull only while it is young and speckled; and it loses its speckled appearance after the first year. 1821Scott Pirate v, For your harvest on the crag, I suppose you mean these scowries, or whatever you call them. 1822[see Iceland]. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scot. xxxviii. (1855) 300 A skoray, or young kittiwake. 1899J. Spence Shetland Folk-Lore 14 The plee o' the skorie, the birr o' the snipe. 1918T. Manson Humours of Peat Commission I. 125, I mind haein a tame scorie..whin I wis a boy. 1960People's Jrnl. (Dundee) 12 Mar. 9/2 Ah'm fair deav't wi' the awfa scraichin' o' the scurries. |