"pickmire" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pickmires [plural]
Etymology: pick + mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pick|mire}} pick + mire Head templates: {{en-noun}} pickmire (plural pickmires)
  1. (UK, dialect, dated) The peewit, or black-headed gull. Tags: UK, dated, dialectal Categories (lifeform): Gulls
    Sense id: en-pickmire-en-noun-~evtSICw Categories (other): British English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup

Inflected forms

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