Lexicographical Neighbors of Drappy
Literary usage of Drappy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"... What's waur, that she liket a drappy. Then ae nieht at a kirn I saw Maggy Hay,
To see her was straight to adore her; The widow look'd blue when I pass'd ..."
2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1883)
"... For I found she had courted na me, but my purse ; What's waur—that she liket
a drappy, a drappy, What's waur, that she liket a ..."
3. Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland by Walter Gregor (1881)
"A misty May and a drappy Jeene Macks an eer hairst, an seen deen." Washing the
face with dew gathered on the morning of the first day of May kept it from ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"drappy, -le [dim. 0/drap]. We are na fou, ... latest draught o1 breathin lea*es
him But just a drappy in our e'e ; . ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"Charlie ever afterwards was apt to forget him. self when he got (what was a very
frequent occurrence) a drappy ..."
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