10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLAURY»
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glaury in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary
GLORRY or GLAURY, adj. fat. See Glor. Fat bacon or fat meat of any kind is said
to be glaury. GNAGE, v. to gnaw. A.S. gnagan. GOLLOP, sb. a slice. A variant of '
collop.' ' Cut me a gollop o' lean and a gollop o' fat.' GOMBY [gomby] , sb. a silly ...
2
A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield
GLORRY or GLAURY, adj. fat. See Glor. Fat bacon or fat meat of any kind is said
to be glaury. GNAGE, v. to gnaw. A.S. gnagan. GOLLOP, sb. a slice. A variant of '
collop.' ' Cut me a gollop o' lean and a gollop o' fat.' GOMBY [gombyj , sb. a silly ...
3
Mining and Scientific Press
'Glory-hole' is a corruption of ' glaury-hole, ' a name given by Scottish sailors to
the place for refuse in the waste of a ship. At our Western mines it became
convenient to throw the discard from the boarding-house into the nearest open-
cut, ...
4
The Roxburghshire Word-Book
A slap with the palm of the hand. C—W. [Ettrick Forest (1825) clateh = 1. With 2 cf.
SLATCH sb.] CLATCH, sb.2 I. A piece of ground in a soft or sloppy condition;
adhesive mud or mire: “A muckle glaury clatch.” N—W. 2. An untidy mess.
GLORRY or GLAURY, adj. fat. See GLOR. Fat bacon or fat meat of any kind is
said to be glaury. GNAGE, v. to gnaw. A.S. gnagan. GOLLOP, sb. a slice. A
variant of 'collop.' ' Cut me a gallop o' lean and a gallop o' fat." GOMBY [gomby] ,
sb. a ...
English Dialect Society, 1888
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Lilts and Larks Frae Larkie
LOWLY and saftly oor gutter-girt wheels Through 'mang the clabber are slidin',
Loomin' an' seemin' — us bicycle chiels — Like ducks owre a glaury hole glidin'.
Certes ! a cheenge o' oor claes we require, For breeks, coats, collars, an' dickeys
...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
While peats arc got in Plunton's glaury moss, MAcrAcoARr Gall. Encycl. (1824)
86, ed. 1876. Nhb.l Dorty glarry roads. 'The hand 0' glory' is a boys' game, a
practical joke, in which the victim's hand is brought in contact and smeared with
gloar.
I threw down into the glaury sticky grave one daffodil from the spring of 1985
tossed it out from me saw it bump against a freshly dug wall and with it part of
myself my youth the good times and middling since the matches the trips to
Dublin ...
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Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, Etc: Partly in the Scottish ...
Thro' glaury holes, an' dybs, nae mair Ye'll ward my pettles frae the lair, Nor
skinkle jet-black, here an' there, Wi' white-thread hose ,Whan I gang to a kintry
Fair, To mak' a sprose. Gaun sauntrin' hame, last owk, my lane, I hadna game 32
The ...
No, I think I'llbide. Ifyou're right there'llbemore to see than glaury roads." "I'm
warning ye, fair and honest. Ye...can't...be...allowed. ..to...stay...here!" "Well I.
