10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREESHY»
Discover the use of
creeshy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
creeshy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The English dialect dictionary
Hence (1]_ Creeshiness, so. greasiness ; (a) Creeshless, fluff. lean, thin, without
fat; [3} Creeshy, adj. greasy, oily. (1) Se. (Jam) (2) Ref. Lauchlan was creeshless
as leavtm in the autumn, Wess'rsn Rhymes (1835) 62. (3) Se. Kamesters are ayc
...
2
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
()il l ” said Rory ; “ Creeshy prutes." “ So,in consequence, I intend after this to
confine the manufacture to black cloth, which will require no dye, you know; if you
choose to contract, Rory, I will give you halfa~crown for all you can deliver during
...
A creeshy periodical, price a penny, takes precedence of a black-pudding of
strong bull's blood and the generous suct— some. The age of Haggis is gone! 'I'
ICKLER. And Journeyman Tailors having discovered that “ Knowledge is Power,”
...
Oh, Creeshy won't say nothin'. Leastwise she might let out a hint sometime, but '
twouldn't be nothin' that nobody could make anything of. Creeshy'll keep dark, if I
tell her to." "And Nancy? It seems very strange that two or three A WOMAN'S ...
Caroline Fairfield Corbin, 1867
5
Rebecca; Or, a Woman's Secret
Oh ! sartain, sir; sartain. I wouldn't tell nobody on't for nothin'.” “And your wife ? ” “
Oh, Creeshy won't say nothin'. Leastwise she might let out a hint sometime, but '
twouldn't be nothin' that nobody could make anything ofl Creeshy'll keep dark, ...
Caroline Fairfield Corbin, 1868
6
Comic poems of the years 1685, and 1793; on rustic scenes in ...
... o' the sturdy dee'd, when full 4 O' honours, like his dam, 4 (Since Creeshy killed
our parish bull) 4 The dad o' mony a lamb ; 4 Like foot-band Finlay by the fool, '
All those that courage sham You'll fright avyay : (g) 4 The creeshy Deacon next ...
Robert Brown (of Newhall.), Lintoun green, 1817
SCOTLAND'S CREESHY POUNDS. The spendthrift says the guinea's round,
That it may run in rings ; The miser sings that he has found It flat, to lie in bings.
Whate'er may be the guinea's use, Odds ! gramercie and zounds ! There's not a ...
I had to break out after that about ev'ry month for a few days till I got married, and I
reckined that would cure me, for I figgered I had pride enough not to let on to '
Creeshy. I did stick it out like a good one for four months, but then it come over
me ...
9
The Games & Diversions of Argyleshire
... (chucks), 67, 71 Cradle, Cat's, I90 Crann tabhuil, 23o Crapach, in shinty, 29
Cravat, 198 Creach nead gille Biodaig, 235 Crease, 23 Creel, Kail in a, 165
Creeshy, 23 Crescil, 23 Cricket, 36 Crioch, 15 ,, a' Bhodaich, 208 Criomag
chaitein, 174 ...
10
The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
Aye, I was speakin' aboot Creeshy Callum's coffin that oor Saunders — the
muckle tongueless sumph there got dirt cheap — ye see Creeshy had been
measured for't, but, as he had a short leg and a shorter, the joiner measured the
wrang leg ...
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 1895
