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[UK] Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/5: ‘I would rather he had telled us what made him gie the go-by to Ezra’.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/5: ‘Haud your gabs, baith ’o you’’.
at stow one’s gab (v.) under gab, n.2
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 20 Oct. 2/5: ‘Here’s a moocher on the beer’ / [...] / An’ he had drunk his last bawbee / Wi’ some orra, ragged quean.
at moocher, n.
[UK] Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/4: ‘I was fair scunnered at Tammas the day’.
at scunner, v.
[UK] Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/5: ‘Tammas got it [i.e. a scolding] strong’.
at strong, adv.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 26 Jan. 2/3: This was none other than the great Hogopolis, Chicago.
at Porkopolis, n.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 1 Jan. 6/6: By crivens, but he tell’t me plenty tae pit me past buyin’ the like.
at crivens!, excl.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 5 Feb. 2/3: Oh crivens! Nae what!
at crivens!, excl.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 22 Nov. 5/6: ‘Great crivens, Donal!’ I said suddenly.
at crivens!, excl.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 4 Oct. n.p.: After the band had bestowed its benediction in the strains of ‘Return to Serbia,’ the writer was fortunate enough to ‘fag’ an interpreter, through whom he sought out the native Scoutmaster.
at fag, v.4
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 30 Sept. 5/7: The reward we’ve got for a good job — anither order and crivans! she’s a beezer.
at beezer, n.2
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 30 Sept. 5/7: The reward we’ve got for a good job — anither order and crivans! she’s a beezer.
at crivens!, excl.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 30 Sept. 7/2: The ’keeper got a roasting [...] He could do nothing to stem the tide.
at roasting, n.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 23 June 13/2: Arbroath Scop the Pool. Arbroath carried off the honours in the [...] qualifying section.
at scoop the pool (v.) under scoop, v.
[Scot] Arbroath Herald 29 May 8/3: In justice to their bravery [...] we must state that [...] they did not show the white feather until deserted by their officers.
at show the (white) feather (v.) under show, v.
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