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[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 28 May 4/1: Superfine Jamaica Rum [...] 5s. the Scotch Pint.
at Scotch pint (n.) under Scotch, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 7 Aug. 3/2: Boil all these in a Scotch pint of the best ale.
at Scotch pint (n.) under Scotch, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 7 Jan. 4/2: He did not go prittle-ptrattling about to hear the opinion of the Harbour Commissioners.
at prittle-prattle, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 27 Nov. 4/5: St Palladus stands a bearded and [...] rugged looking low-mitred bishop.
at rugged, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 9 Nov. 3/2: The stepmother’s breath was in the air, as they say in the north of Ireland.
at stepmother’s breath, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 13 Jan. 5/5: German General Election [...] Numerous meetings were convened by the Socialists [...] and armies of schlepper, or whippers-in, mustered.
at schlepper, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 15 June 4/2: The Royal Infirmary manages to scrub along but succeeding chairmen are at their wits end [...] raising an income.
at scrub along (v.) under scrub, v.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 1 July 4/6: [He] would probably be known among the deckhands as a bit of haw-haw. and he would almost certainly be wearing gaspipes (close-fitting trousers).
at gas pipe, n.2
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 3 Mar. 3/4: Once a ‘shawlie’ always a ‘shawlie,’ always a wearer of the badge of the tenement.
at shawlie, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Press & Jrnl 6 Feb. 5/1: [cartoon caption] One moonlight night Silas Slink crept out of his den.
at slink, n.
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