Fifien.
/ˈfʌɪfi/, U.S. /ˈfaɪfi/, Scottish English /ˈfʌifɪ/ Scottish.
‘A type of herring fishing boat with vertical stem and stern-posts, common in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries on the E. coast, probably so called from having been first built and used on the Fife coast’ ( Sc. National Dict.).
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1905 Banffshire Jrnl. 28 Mar. A place for biggin heerin' boats Zulus, Fifies—best afloat.
1914 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 264/1 The craft at this time were of the ‘scaff’ or ‘fifie’ build.
1927 Glasgow Herald 3 May 7 Scaffie boats gave way to Zulu and Fifie types.
1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 84 438 The Scottish craft, the fifies and zulus.
1950 P. F. Anson Sc. Fisherfolk viii. 104 The most common type of Scottish fishing vessel until about the introduction of steam was the ‘Fifie’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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