A Dictionary of Lowland ScotchPriv. print. at the Ballantyne Press, 1888 - Всего страниц: 398 |
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Стр. xv
... comes from steen ; smack , to taste - from smack ; goud , gold - from goud ; loupen , to leap from loopen ; fell , cruel , violent , fierce - from fel ; kist , a chest - from kist ; mutch , a woman's cap - from muts ; ghaist , a ghost ...
... comes from steen ; smack , to taste - from smack ; goud , gold - from goud ; loupen , to leap from loopen ; fell , cruel , violent , fierce - from fel ; kist , a chest - from kist ; mutch , a woman's cap - from muts ; ghaist , a ghost ...
Стр. xxv
... come whence it will , that expresses a new meaning or a more delicate shade of an old meaning , than any existing forms of expression admit . Eerie , and gloaming , and cannie , and cantie , and cozie , and lift , and lilt , and caller ...
... come whence it will , that expresses a new meaning or a more delicate shade of an old meaning , than any existing forms of expression admit . Eerie , and gloaming , and cannie , and cantie , and cozie , and lift , and lilt , and caller ...
Стр. 1
... excellent word ought to be adopted into English . It comes from the Gaelic ard , aird , a height . " Of a ' the airts from which the wind can blaw , " is better than " of all the quar A powerful and indigestive mix- ture , that no one but.
... excellent word ought to be adopted into English . It comes from the Gaelic ard , aird , a height . " Of a ' the airts from which the wind can blaw , " is better than " of all the quar A powerful and indigestive mix- ture , that no one but.
Стр. 7
... come droppin ' in . -BURNS : Cotter's Saturday Night . Bicker , a drinking - cup , a beaker , a turn ; also a quarrel . Fill high the foaming bicker ! Body and soul are mine , quoth he , I'll have them both for liquor . -The Gin Fiend ...
... come droppin ' in . -BURNS : Cotter's Saturday Night . Bicker , a drinking - cup , a beaker , a turn ; also a quarrel . Fill high the foaming bicker ! Body and soul are mine , quoth he , I'll have them both for liquor . -The Gin Fiend ...
Стр. 11
... come up the streams to deposit their spawn , an ex- planation which is wholly in- admissible . The third and fourth phrases are black - foot and black - sole , which both mean a confidant in love affairs , or one who goes between a ...
... come up the streams to deposit their spawn , an ex- planation which is wholly in- admissible . The third and fourth phrases are black - foot and black - sole , which both mean a confidant in love affairs , or one who goes between a ...
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according to Jamieson ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Ambrosianæ applied Arnha auld bairns Ballad beautiful better bonnie Border Minstrelsy BURNS Busk called canna cauld Chaucer corruption de'il Deil Dictionary Dutch and Flemish e'en England English word etymology Flemish fool frae French Gaelic gang GEORGE BEATTIE German hame haud Highland Holy Fair Jacobite JAMES BALLANTINE Jamie Jamieson derives John kirk lady laird lish Lord Lost Preterites mair maun meaning mickle Minstrelsy mony muckle ne'er never o'er obsolete old English origin phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet possibly preterite probably RAMSAY RAMSAY'S Scots Proverbs Robert Burns root Ross's Helenore says Scotland Scottish Border Scottish language Scottish word sense Shakspeare Shanter signifies Sir Walter Scott slang sometimes written song synonymous Teutonic thou tion Twa Dogs verb weel whence wife WIRRY-COW woman ye'll Ye're
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