Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoug
Literary usage of Scoug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... and spoil all their goods ; to pre« vent this danger, he convoys them secretly
under the scoug of a rock, to attend if any of their boats would loose, ..."
2. Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A Contribution to the by George Tobias Flom (1900)
"Skog, scoug, sb. place of retreat, shelter, protection. Dalr., I, 30, 29 ; Isaiah,
XXXII, 2. ON skuggi, shade, Norse skugge, O. Sw. skuggi. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"Come in and scoug the shower," and Janet entered the wicket, walked up the little
garden path, and crossed the threshold of the Dean. CHAPTER X.—THE COVERT. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... shelter frae the driving drift but the scoug o' a bare craig."—" Tak' ye tent
o* your beast, sir, rejoined the wary Menial, who was now employed in ..."
5. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"... sae dowr Frae Borean houtt'in angry show'r, Like thee they scoug frae street
or field, An' hap them in a ..."
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