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Dunfermline (Saturday) Press choose

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[Scot] Dunfermline Sat. Press (Scot.) 24 Mar. 4/1: The ‘vile scape-gallows o’ the name o’ Hapworth’ [...] committed suicide.
at scapegallows, n.
[Scot] Dunfermline Sat. Press 12 Dec. 2/4: Had had seen ‘Laird M’Queen’ ‘roaring fou,’ and bleeding.
at roaring fou, adj.
[Scot] Dunfermline Sat. Press 4 July 5/3: Here the [black] boy rubbed his stomach, and grinning with delight, said ‘Yummy yummy! plenty belly full’.
at yummy, adj.
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