Home › Words › A › arriearriearrie means A murre or guillemot.EtymologyUltimately onomatopoeic from the bird's cry, the name may have entered English via Russian; it is also used by the Aleuts.nounA murre or guillemot.e.g.“Now this pioneer naturalist goes on to tell us that the shell of the arrie's egg is of such remarkable strength, that it will stand rough handling that would in a moment destroy ordinary eggs;” — 1953, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of game animals: an account of those land animals ...:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.murre 78% match — Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). vs arrie →guillemot 66% match — Any seabird belonging to the genera Uria and Cepphus of the auk family Alcidae. They have black and white bodies and are good at swimming and diving. vs arrie →purre 63% match — A bird, the dunlin. vs arrie →kiddow 62% match — The guillemot. vs arrie →garefowl 62% match — The great auk. vs arrie →scraber 61% match — The black guillemot. vs arrie →auk 60% match — Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. vs arrie →aery 60% match — Dated spelling of eyrie. vs arrie →