Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaud
Literary usage of Scaud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"When I mount the Creepie-chair, To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me, Seek Heaven
for help, .... scaud ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"... The scaud they contain'd was the company burning. What waistcoats and breeks
were a screening and ripping, Some down and some up, near the na'el were a ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"A gleam, gleaming ; as, " There's a scaud in the sky," ibid.] 3. " A disrespectful
name for tea ; " (Gall. Encyc.) probably imposed by those who thought it ..."
4. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"NED), and it is probable that sk partly depends on scaud. influence, although it
may partly rest ... to derive it from a scaud. base laska, still found with ..."
5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"SCATTERGOOD, ». A spendthrift, Й. Bride of Lam. To scaud, va To ...
scaud-MAN'S-HEAD, ». ..."
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