Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirting
Literary usage of Chirting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Doug. Virgil. 89. 33. 2. To act in a griping manner, as, in making a bargain ;
also, to squeeze or practise extortion. A chirting fallow, a covetous wrt. ..."
2. John Cheap the Chapman's Library: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last by Dougal Graham, John Cheap (1877)
"... but yet nane wan out; then wi chirting and claping down comes the clay hallen,
and the hen bawk wi llab Reid the fiddler, who had crept up beside the ..."
3. John Cheap, the Chapman's, Library: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last by John Cheap (1877)
"With that he gets an auld flail and rives awa' the supple, then drives them a'
to the back of the door, but yet nane wan out; then wi chirting and claping ..."
4. Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago: Being a Series of Articles Illustrative of by Maria Trotter, Saxon, Robert De Bruce Trotter (1877)
"... and did not treat their servants as if they were a kind of nowt, or some kind
of brute beasts for chirting work out of, and fit for naething else, ..."
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