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** Scots
*** Noun
[sco-noun]
1. pithead
2. * {{ quote-book | sco
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dFAMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209 |page = 209
|title = Sniper Jackson |author = Frederick Sleath |year = 1919 |passage =
'Ye'd be a lang time yersel if ye had been on the PITHEID afore ye were nine,
same as Ah was' }}
1. * {{ quote-book | sco
|author = w:Hamish Henderson |year = 1960 |title = w:Freedom Come-All-Ye
|passage = Nor wee weans frae PITHEID an clachan / Murn the ships sailin doun
the Broomielaw }}
1. * {{ quote-book | sco
|author = w:Robert McLellan |year = 1990 |year_published = 2010 |title =
Linmill Stories |page = 86 |url =
https://books.google.com/books?id=a_bgG3aKuuwC&pg=PA86 |passage = [...] an
ugsome place wi PITHEIDS and bings and railway trucks and rees o coal[...] }}
** Scottish Gaelic
*** Alternative forms
- [gd]
*** Etymology
From [gd], [sco], diminutive of [sco], from [gd] (also represented in the
second element of modern [en]).
*** Pronunciation
- [gd]
*** Noun
[g=f]
1. magpie
2. parrot
**** Synonyms
- [parrot] [gd]
[gd]