10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISJASKIT»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Drookit, dowic, an' disjaskit, Duncan left his drcepin' lair, GRANT Lays (1884) 114
. s.Sc. Ye looked very disjaskit last nieht when ye cam hamc, WILSON Tales (
1836) Ill. 54. Ayr. Alice trig and bonnie as ever, but Rab vcra squeefy and
disjaskit, ...
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An etmological dictionary of the scottish language
Ckron. S. P. 2. A disappointment, Aberd. 3. Any thing prejudicial, S. From dis, and
short, v. to recreate. DISJASKIT, part.pa. 1. Disjaskit-like, exhibiting every
appearance of a decay in circumstances, S. B. Probably allied to Dan. jask-er,
hask* er, ...
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: ...
S. P. iii. 482. 2. A disappointment, Aberd. 3. An injury, any thing prejudicial, S.
Perhaps from dis and short, v. to recreate j as op- posed to the idea expressed by
Schorfsum, q. v. DISJASKIT, part. pa. 1. Disjaskit-like, exhibiting every
appearance ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Having a shabby appearance; given as synon. with Disjaskit, Selkirks. It is most
probably compounded of skail to scatter, and E. rag, as equivalent to
tatterdemalion ; q. " one who gives his rags to the wind." I prefer this to deriving
the term from ...
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A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage
Tam is a strang fallae kis he sowpit his parritch. Tam becam strang wi aye sowpin
up his parritch. Past participles are frequently used predicatively, often as
complements to the verb // be. For participles like, begrutten, behauden. disjaskit,
feirt, ...
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Scoor-oot: a dictionary of Scots words and phrases in ...
Daftie is more restricted in sense - it means a fool or an imbecile, except when
used (as in colloquial English) as a term of general abuse. disjaskit Depressed.
Localised Scots. A person can look, or be, disjaskit, downcast, though this can ...
James A. C. Stevenson, Iseabail Macleod, 1989
On the morning after the Coronation, I found myself in a very disjaskit state, being
both sore in lith and limb, and worn out in my mind with the great fatigue I had
undergone, together with a waff of cold that had come upon me, no doubt caused
...
MITHER and DISJASKIT Chesh1re appears to be a richly inventive as well as a
stubbornly retentive county in its matters of vocabulary. Or is it simply that it
produces more word-lovers who want their favourites to live on and kindly let me
know ...
Ivor John Carnegie Brown, 1953
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The Gaberlunzie's Wallet
'Od help us ! what a disjaskit lookin' thing is a ball and supper room after the party
hae left them. What a warld o' trouble we women bodies hae that naebody kens o
' but oursells, afore we get a' our nick-nackets in order again." " Indeed," said ...
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The Prose Works: Containing Tales of my landlord, The Monastery
Aweel, sir, ye'll chase for yoursell, to be sure; but de'il a guide ye'll need, if ye gae
down the water for twa mile or sae, as gin ye were bound for Milnwood-house,
and then tak the first broken disjaskit-looking road that makes for the hills—ye'll ...
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