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Brownie of Bodsbeck I 280: ‘It is his ghaist come to haunt the place.’ [...] ‘Ower true! it’s awesome to think o’’.at awesome, adj.
Brownie of Bodsbeck I 280: ‘It is his ghaist come to haunt the place.’ [...] ‘Ower true! it’s awesome to think o’’. Wool-Gatherer 162: ‘I kend your father weel; he’s a good cannie man.’ ‘I wish he had beltit your shoulders as aft as he has done mine, ye maybe wadna hae said sae muckle for him.’.at belt, v.
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 55: Father – the thing is impossible. Was ever a poor creature so hard bested!at bested (adj.) under best, v.
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 20: I coudna swally my spittle for the hale day, an’ I fand a kind o’ foost, foost, foostin about my briskit.at brisket, n.1
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 26: Py Cot’s preath, put she shall pe coing in. [Ibid.] 31: Hu! Cot t--n your right!at cod, n.1
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 27: Get aff wi’ your Hieland impudence – brazen-faced thief!at get off!, excl.
Wool-Gatherer 186: Your wife! Weel I wat ye’ll never get the like o’ her, great muckle hallanshaker-like guff.at hallan shaker, n.
Wool-Gatherer 124: She’s a hinny and joe.at joe, n.1
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 22: I naturally liftit up my een, very stupit-like, I dare say, to see what it was.at like, adv.
Wool-Gatherer 125: How can ye [...] come rinning to me wi’ a hizzy an’ bairn at your tail [...] I’ll sooner see you an’ her, an’ that little limb, a’ hung up by the links o’ the neck.at limb, n.
Brownie of Bodsbeck I 111: No juggling with me, old Mrs Skinflint.at Miss, n.
Brownie of Bodsbeck I 143: The gudewife hauds his neb right sair to the grindstane about it.at neb, n.1
Wool-Gatherer 126: Gang after your braw gallant, wi’ your oxterfu’ ket.at oxterful (n.) under oxter, n.
Wool-Gatherer 125: Hear to the tatterdemallions! – Christian! Bairn i’ My arms! – Ye impudent, hempy-looking tike that ye are! Pack out o’ my house, I say.at pack off (v.) under pack, v.1
Wool-Gatherer 155: Ah, he’s coming, poor fellow – he’s takin a pipe to himsel at the house-end [...] his heart can stand naething – it is as saft as a snaw-ba’.at take a pipe (v.) under pipe, v.1
Brownie of Bodsbeck I 275: He has a sonsy weel-faur’d lass to bide wi’.at sonsy, adj.
Wool-Gatherer 163: Away wi’ your spindel-shankit babyclouts – they’re no the gear.at spindleshanks, n.
Wool-Gatherer 100: What are you going to do with that wretched stuff, lassie?at stuff, n.
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 19: Aih, but he’s a terrible clever body yon Geordie Lockie.at terrible, adj.
Brownie of Bodsbeck II 18: I took up my neive an’ gae him a yank on the haffat tell I gart his bit brass cap rattle against the wa’.at yank, n.1
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