Definitions For Goldie

Noun

GOLDIE (plural GOLDIEs) Something which is golden in color. (UK, birdwatching) The golden eagle. {{quote-book, en, title=The A-V., volume=66-70, year=1958, passage=Young "baldies" look just like "goldies" and are often shot by mistake.}} {{quote-journal, en, magazine=McSweeney's, issue=14, page=124, year=2004, passage={{...}} the golden eagle is the champion predator. And the most handsome, according to ornithologists, who affectionately call their subjects "goldies".}} {{quote-book, en, title=A natural history of St. Kilda, author=John A. Love, year=2009, passage=Golden eagles took up old eyries on Hebridean sea cliffs only after the white-tailed sea eagle became extinct. Goldies may hunt seabirds but never fish, and they always resort to flying inland for rabbits or hares as preferred prey.}} (UK, birdwatching) The golden plover. {{quote-book, en, title=Birds Britannica, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjwgAQAAIAAJ, author=Mark Cocker; Richard Mabey , year=2005, passage=“Each time the golden plover moved, its dunlin attendant followed, but when the goldie flew off to land on a wooden post, it triggered a bizarre cameo.}} {{quote-book, en, title=Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, author=Jeremy Mynott, passage=Both grey and golden had the folk name "whistling plover" in Britain, but you know from the habitat that Burns must have had the goldie in mind in his line, The deep-toned plover gray, wild whistling on the hill, year=2009}} {{quote-book, en, title=Waders: their Breeding, Haunts and Watchers, author=Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, page=107, passage=Dunlins, 'the plover's page', lay their eggs in wetter flows, usually those having a complex of small pools; we often watched the dunlins following the goldies., url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDaHGXYp9WwC&lpg=PA107&dq=%22goldies%22%20%22eagle%22&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q=%22goldies%22%20%22eagle%22&f=false, year=2010}} The goldfinch. {{quote-book, en, title=Notes on cage birds, editor=William Thomas Greene, passage=I have tried Inga seed for canaries and goldfinches for three or four months, and can speak well of it. My birds, goldies especially, are very fond of it; these will pick it out and leave the canary seed, which they scarcely touch now., url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0ADAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22goldies%22%20bird&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q=%22goldies%22%20bird&f=false, year=1882}} {{quote-book, en, title=The Birds of Berwickshire, author=George Muirhead, page=149, passage=Mr. Peter Scott, Lauder, related that Goldfinches were common in Lauderdale about forty-five years ago, and that their nests were sometimes found about that time in the grounds of Thirlestane Castle. The rocky deans near the sea-coast at Lamberton are also said to have been frequented by "Goldies" in former times, and they were likewise found about Fairneyside., url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vb0pAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22goldies%22&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q=%22goldies%22&f=false, year=1889}} {{quote-book, en, title=Outwitting Squirrels, author=Bill Adler, year=2014, passage=I'm not trying to defend house finches—I'm wooed by goldies' looks like every other feeder—and I certainly think that house finches eat far more seed than they deserve., page=34}} (informal) A goldfish. {{quote-newsgroup, en, year=1999, author=Sutterkid, title=fish, newsgroup=comp.bbs.tbbs (informal) A golden retriever. {{quote-journal, en, date=2022-07-05, author=Alice Gibbs, title=Golden Retriever's Reaction to Missing Snack Time Delights Internet, journal=w:Newsweek, url=https://www.newsweek.com/golden-retriever-missing-snack-time-delights-internet-1721782, passage=Incredibly, the reactions of the dogs differed between the instances. {{...}} "It's the pursed lips that do it for me," said another comment: "My goldie used to do the same."}}