10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPERNOITED»
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Sc. Alan has given up his ain old-fashioned mother-wit for the t'others
capernoited maggots and nonsense, Scorr Redg. (1824) ii ; The capernoity old
alewife, ib. SI. Ronan (1824) xxxi. S. & Ork.1 Abd. They're grown sae ugertfu' and
vamity and ...
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Our voyage: a book for the Cape, or any other, voyager
Hech, sirs ! but it was an unco' nasty night, and made us all capernoited. Is that it,
Mr. Elliot ? Capernoited ? First Mate. — Vera gude, indeed ! — for a Sassenach.
Egomet. — With hot pillows and sticky clothing, our very hands were a burden to
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Robert Richards (advocate of Natal.), 1885
60 Our fine newfangle sparks, I grant ye, Gie poor auld Scotland mony a taunty;
They're grown sae ugertfu and vaunty, And capernoited, They guide her like a
cankered aunty 65 That's deaf and doited. Sae comes of ignorance I trow, It's this
...
Christopher Maclachlan, 2010
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The English dialect dictionary
Peevlsh, ill-natured, ' crabbed,' irritab e, fractious. 5c. Alan has given up his ain
old—fashioned mother-wit for the t'others capernoited maggots and nonsense,
SCOTT Redg. [1824} ii ; The capernoity old alewil'e, 1'6. 51'. Romm (18:14) autxi.
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American encyclopedic dictionary
[Scotch capernoited; and Eng. suff- -ness.] Obstinacy, perversity. {Dr. Chalmers.) (
Longmuir's JamiesonA cap-er-nol-tie, cap-er-noi-ted, a. [Perhaps from Icel. fcappi
=astnfe, a quarrel ; nyta —to use.l Crabbed, irritable, peevish. (Scotch.) ...
Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, 1897
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The Life of Robert Burns: With a Criticism on His Writings
Wi' writing I'm sae bleirt and doited, That when I raise, in troth, I stoited; I thought I
should turn capernoited, For wi' a gird, Upon my bum I fairly cloited On the cald
card ; \Vhich did oblige a little dumple Upon my doup, close by my rumple; But ...
James Currie, Robert Chambers, 1838
... his mess-mates—men, jealous of honour, and not easily brooking interference
in such matters —the person upon whom the brand is fixed is not to be restored
to the privileges of a gentleman by a capernoited Provost, incompetent to think or
...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
ON ONE 'It The punitione that the speritualitie remanent in. 'oYs 2. Afi'ecting
delicacy of taste. S.B. Our fine new fangle sparks, I grant ye, Gie poor auld
Scotland mony a taunty, They're grown sae ugertfu' and vaunty, And capernoited.
Bealtie's ...
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The Poems of Allan Ramsay: With Glossary, Life of the ...
Wi' writing I 'm sae bleirt and doited, That when I raise, in troth I stoited ; I thought I
shou'd turn capernoited: i For wi' a gird, Upon my burn I fairly cloited ' = On the
cald eard; Which did oblige a little dumple Upon my doup, close Which 336 ...
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The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy. With a Life and ...
Gleugh, a den betwixt rocks. Clink, money, a cant term. Cant, to tell merry old
tales. Cantrips, incantations. CUnty, hard, stony. Canty, cheerful and merry. Clock
, a beetle. Capernoited, whimsical, ill-natured. Cloited, the fall of any soft moist
thing ...
