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[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 129: ’Tis now come till our hand what Bydby tauld: / We’ll naething be afore yon bangsters bauld.
at bangster, n.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore (1778) 169: Bangster, a bragger, or bully.
at bangster, n.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 65: She heard a weerd-wife tell, / That thro’ the cuintray telling fortunes yeed, An’ at babees an’ placks came wond’rous speed.
at baubee, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 15: Now Lindy is as canty as a midge.
at canty, adj.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 114: An’ never a look wi’ Lindy did let fa’, / But chaw’d her cood on what she heard an’ saw.
at chew the cud, v.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 99: I hear by far she dy’d like Jenkin’s hen.
at die like Jenkin’s hen (v.) under die, v.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 38: She’ll nae be lang her lane: / Her rigs’ll gar the wooers come ding-dang.
at ding-dong, adv.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 37: Black, hairy wrats [sic], about an inch between, / Out-throw her fiz, were like mustaches seen.
at fiz, n.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 37: An’ o’er her gab hang down a sneevling snout.
at gab, n.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 9: Tho’ I be auld, but I’ll yet gather gear.
at gear, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 5: Ye shak your head; but o’ my fegs, / Ye’ve set auld Scota on her legs.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 96: Sae we had better jouk until the jaw / Gang o’er our heads, than stand afore’t.
at juke, v.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 40: ‘I think,’ quo aunt, ‘ye’re fairly nicked now.’.
at nick, v.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 87: Her in her oxter hard an’ fast she grips.
at oxter, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 12: Jean’s paps wi’ sa’t and water washen clean.
at paps, n.1
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 99: The squire some short account I give, / Who to his aunt returning miss’d his pout, / An’ was in unko rage, ye wad na doubt.
at pout, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 84: Right cheerfully the road they did tak in.
at right, adv.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 7: They need not try thy jokes to fathom, / They want rumgumption.
at rumgumption, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 57: They turs’d the baggage an’ awa’ they scour.
at scour, v.2
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 12: A sonsie pair of lad an’ lass was found.
at sonsy, adj.
[UK] A. Ross ‘The Rock & the Wee Pickle Tow’ Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 143: I’m as warm and as bra’, / As thrummy-tail’d Meg that’s a spinner o’t.
at thrum, n.1
[UK] A. Ross ‘To the Begging We Will Go’ Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 152: Then will I wallop out a dance, / Or tell some merry tale.
at wallop, v.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 38: An’ for her dresses, wow, but they were fine!.
at wow, n.
[UK] A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 133: Chap out as monie yonkers frae your glen /As ilka horn an’ hoove o’ yours may ken.
at younker, n.
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