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[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 7: You are to be my chum.
at chum, n.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 55: Some are call’d Cod’s heads, wanting brains.
at cod’s head, n.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 6: Say no more, my dear boy, says the master, you shant vant the corianders whilst you stay vith me.
at coriander (seed), n.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 144: As soon as I get fixed in life, I’ll cease to think of war and strife; And take unto myself a wife.
at fix, v.1
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 82: This day few Snabs [sic] are sober, The craft being all for fuddling keen.
at fuddle, v.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 12: If that were dune the sum final, Wad be just downright havers [sic].
at halvers, n.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 6: I am at present what is vulgarly called stiver cramped.
at stiver-cramped (adj.) under stiver, n.
[Scot] Edinbury Gleaner 50: He who a Goldfinch strives to make his wife, Makes her, perhaps a Wag-tail all her life.
at wagtail, n.
[Scot] Gleaner 4: ‘You’re a gone goose, friend,’ said another, with an ominous shake of the head .
at gone goose (n.) under gone, adj.1
[Scot] Gleaner 3 Oct. 35: A ‘Wappen Bappen’ is a tenement room, chiefly made of old packing cases, flattened out kerosene tins, old tar paper [etc.].
at wappen-bappen, n.
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