English Explanatory Dictionary

Birney

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. A census-designated place in Rosebud County, Montana, United States.
noun
  1. A design of smaller streetcar with a single four-wheel truck produced in North America between 1915 and 1930, and apparently named after Charles Birney.

Word forms

Birney Birneys Birnie

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname from a place in Morayshire, probably from Scottish Gaelic braonach (“misty, wet, damp”).

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