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Watty and Meg choose

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[Scot] Watty and Meg 2: Some war roarin’, ithers sleepet, / Ithers quietly chewt their cude.
at chew the cud, v.
[Scot] Watty and Meg 4: She’ll clash on / Wi’ her everlasting clack.
at clack, n.
[Scot] Watty and Meg 4: Nasty, gude-for-naething being! / O ye snuffy druncken sow! / Bringin’ wife an’ weans to ruin, / Drinkin’ here wi’ sic a crew!
at crew, n.
[Scot] Watty and Meg 3: O! I wish I had been halter’d / When I marry’d Maggy Howe!
at halter, v.
[Scot] Watty and Meg 5: Nasty gude-for-naething being! / O ye snuffy, druncken sow!
at sow, n.1
[Scot] Watty and Meg 2: Mungo filled him up a toothful.
at toothful, n.
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