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Definition of Birkie
1. n. A lively or mettlesome fellow.
Definition of Birkie
1. Noun. (skiing) a kind of American cross country ski race. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birkie
1. a lively person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birkie
Literary usage of Birkie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"THE birkie OF BONNIE DUNDEE. 'E fair lands of Angus and bonnie Dundee, How dear
are your echoes, your memories to me! gatherings and meetings in a' the braw ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"Ye see yon birkie ca'da lord, fellow—called Wha struts, and stares, and a' that ?
Though hundreds worship at his word, He 's but a cuif for a' that : dolt ..."
3. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Ye see yon birkie,1 ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that : Though
hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof" for a' that. ..."
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