Lexicographical Neighbors of Kebbie
Literary usage of Kebbie
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 (1880)
"To kebbie, va To chide, to quarrel, Ang. Su. G. fa/u>4i, Isl. Ь/чц Belg. kyv-fn, id.
Su.-G. kif, a quarrel. From tífica is formed the frequentative v. ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"To kebbie, va To chide, to quarrel.] Add; To these Gael, ... So I gat up my kebbie
at them, and said I wad gie them as glide." Tales of my Landlord, iii. ..."
3. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"and limb; but twa o' the red-coats cam up, and ane o' them was gaun to strike my
mother wi' the side o' his broadsword—So I got up my kebbie at them, ..."
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