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Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale choose

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[Scot] ‘Humours of Glasgow Fair’ in Nimmo Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale (1882) 196: Now Gibbie was wanting a toothfu’ / Says he ‘I’m right tir’d of the fun; / I say, lads d’ye think we’d be the wauro’ a mouthfu’ / Of guid nappie Yill and Bun’ / ‘Wi’ a’ my heart,’ says Tam, ‘teth, I’m willing, / Tis best to water the corn’.
at corn, n.1
[Scot] ‘Humours of Glasgow Fair’ in Nimmo Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale (1882) 196: O woman! but ye’re a Gomeral [...] D’ye na ken, ye daft gowk, that’s a mongrel.
at gomeral, n.
[Scot] ‘Humours of Glasgow Fair’ in Nimmo Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale (1882) 196: O woman! but ye’re a Gomeral [...] D’ye na ken, ye daft gowk, that’s a mongrel.
at gook, n.2
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