teeack Orkney dial.
(ˈtiːək)
Also teaoo, teeock, teeoo.
[Echoic: cf. tewhit, tewit.]
= lapwing.
| 1869 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys (ed. 2) v. 194 The plaint of teeacks..blended finely with the shrill pipings of shore-birds. 1884 D. W. Yair in D. H. Edwards Mod. Scot. Poets VII. 248 Teeocks, bleatin', skimmed alang. 1909 Old-Lore Misc. II. i. 29 Like a doo or a teaoo. 1927 H. Campbell Jean's Garden 26 The teeoos crying ower the brecks. 1969 G. M. Brown Orkney Tapestry 97 That's a plover... There's a teeack. |