Talk:barnie

battle or brawl
Trying to puzzle out https://books.google.ca/books?id=LFnv9JT1R-UC&pg=PA90&dq=barnies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil16CVj4LXAhXqhVQKHeEQCOc4FBDoAQg8MAQ usage:
 * 'I have had a few barnies wi' that lot since then, he says: 'I got jumped one night, twa o them, he continues, before proudly adding, 'Baith o' them ended up in hospital

Combined with https://books.google.ca/books?id=vJQzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT172&dq=barnies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil16CVj4LXAhXqhVQKHeEQCOc4FBDoAQhOMAc
 * Stealing motors, getting into barnies. Paul's WildYears. Pathetic, really. He hadbeenpretty angry, rightenough. Angryand confused andfragile, anda teenager, which wasavolatileenough stateunder the best conditions.The shock and thelosshit him pretty hard,but itwasthe abuse that triggered off the anger.

And https://books.google.ca/books?id=7t5CAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT430&dq=barnies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil16CVj4LXAhXqhVQKHeEQCOc4FBDoAQg2MAM
 * conversations slowly shifting from things like Brian and who was to blame, to laughing over Ethne and Barnacle Bill's bar room barnies, Sara's monster-inlaw jokes, and Noah's squabbles

Collectively sounds like this may be slang for a bar fight. Opinions? ScratchMarshall (talk) 16:23, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

1796
https://books.google.ca/books?id=3m1BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480&dq=barnies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil16CVj4LXAhXqhVQKHeEQCOc4FBDoAQhIMAY
 * Not to extend him kept with the records of the said counties; and that the grand juries of said counties shall have full power and authority to present any sum of money to be levied and raised off the inhabitants of the respective baronies or half barnies in said counties, and of the respective counties of cities and counties of towns,

Any idea what "half barnie" could mean? Is it someone who only halfway inhabits a barony? ScratchMarshall (talk) 16:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)