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pirrie

obsolete

pirrie is a noun meaning “A strong gale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-R-R-I-E, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pirrie is pirries.

What does pirrie mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA strong gale.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pirrie

  • pirry

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pirrie?

Pirrie appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does pirrie come from?

Compare Scots pirr (“a gentle breeze”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).