bonxie
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scots bonxie, from Old Norse bunki.
Noun[edit]
bonxie (plural bonxies)
- (UK, chiefly Shetland) The great skua, Stercorarius skua.
- 2006, Graham Uney, Backpacker's Britain: Northern Scotland:
- Bonxies are more than happy to fly at you as you walk harmlessly across the moors, and they regularly clip people with a wing or extended foot […]
- 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 102:
- It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.
References[edit]
- “bonxie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bonxie (plural bonxies)
- (chiefly Shetland) the great skua, Stercorarius skua
- Synonym: skooi
References[edit]
- “bonxie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.