lintie noun
- a Scot word for linnet (def. 1)
Examples from the Web for lintie Historical Examples of lintie
Here the hill-blackbird builds—and here you know why Scotland is called the lintie’s land.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
John Wilson
Afterwards she confided to Lintie that it had struck her as bearing a faint—very faint—resemblance to the mouth of a friend.
R M Ballantyne