Edmonston Zetland (1809) II. 283 (Jam.) ; S. & Ork.' Cf shooi(e.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(nautical, Scotland) A fishing skiff used off the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
(Canada, informal) The city of Edmonton, Canada.
(Scotland, and archaically in England and Ireland) The letter Z; zed, zee.
(UK, slang, obsolete) St Mary Hall, Oxford, England, a medieval academic hall of the University of Oxford, incorporated into Oriel College in 1902.
(Scotland, chiefly, Orkney) A young coalfish or saithe.