ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Barnie

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Barnie is a noun meaning (colloquial) A barn owl or barn swallow.

Meaning

(colloquial) A barn owl or barn swallow.

More Meanings

  1. (colloquial) A barn occupant.

Example Sentences

As they do they're encountering barn swallows, and the meeker barnies are suffering.
The 'Barnies' as they were more commonly known, were, in the main, deserving pensioners
During recess an inviolable border separated the townies at the northern end of our play area from the barnies at the southern.
BARNIES. Some 80 years ago the 'Transactions of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society' carried an extraordinary account of what was almost certainly a pair of luminous barn owls

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