Lexicographical Neighbors of Kippage
Literary usage of Kippage
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)
"Only dinna pit yoursel into a kippage, and expose yoursel before the weans, or
before the ... To be in an unco kippage, to be highly offended or displeased, ..."
2. Publications by Scottish Burgh Records Society, Edinburgh (1892)
"... a binder, fastener, fastening, ii. '•'<-'}. (iael. minii'ill. kippage ...
kippage. Kythe, to show, display, iv. 261. Lag'ing, projection, projecting rim ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... we serve the family wi' bread, and he settles wi' huz ilka week,— only he was
in an unco kippage when we sent him a book instead o' the nick-sticks, ..."
4. Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott, Andrew Lang (1892)
"The colonel's in an unco kippage," said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended ; "
I wish he may be weel, — the very veins on his brent brow are swelled ..."
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