A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish ProverbsTicknor, 1888 - 398 ページ |
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according to Jamieson ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Ambrosianæ applied Arnha auld bairns Ballad beautiful Ben Jonson 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 ne'er never o'er obsolete 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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75 ページ - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree and a
132 ページ - Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, And he called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Of
313 ページ - Oh for a draught of vintage that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep delved earth ! If he had said deep dolven instead of deep delved, he would have had high authority, and would have greatly improved the stately march and music of his verse. Dight, dighted, to prepare, to put in order, to deck, to attire, to wipe
332 ページ - to boil. The translators of the Bible have preserved this old English word, which was in common use before its modern synonym was borrowed with other culinary phrases from the Norman French :— And he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and
120 ページ - And now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin' A certain Bardie's rantin', drinkin', Some luckless hour will send him linkin' To your black pit, But faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin' [dodging], And cheat you yet.
54 ページ - A king can male' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith, he
95 ページ - Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, That ance were plush, o' guid blue hair, I wad ha'e gi'en them aff my hurdies, , For ae blink o
291 ページ - I saw the new moon late yestreen, \Vi' the auld moon in her arm, And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. —SIR PATRICK SPENS
86 ページ - A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft— The grey hairs yet stuck to the heft ; Wi' mair o
176 ページ - they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linkit at it in her Sark ! Tarn tint his reason a