6 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNTIEGOWK»
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huntiegowk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
April fool huntiegowk, gowk. April Fool's Day huntiegowk, gowk's day, magowk's
day. April fool's errand gowk's errand, huntiegowk, gowk. make an April fool of
magowk, gowk. apron n peenie. arch n airch, pen(d), bow. Arctic skua see skua, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
April Fool's Day gowk's day, ma- gowk's day, huntiegowk. April fool's errand
gowk's errand, huntiegowk, gowk. make an April fool of magowk, gowk. go on an
April fool's errand hunt the gowk, gang on a gowk's eerin NE. 2 April (when
children ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... treasure. hoarse adj. croaky, discordant, grating, gravelly, growling, gruff,
guttural, harsh, husky, rasping, raspy, raucous, rough, throaty. hou n. bam, cheat,
cod, con, deception, fast one, fraud, grift, hum, huntiegowk, hunt-the-gowk,
imposture, ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
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The Chambers Dictionary
... anatomist and obstetrician, or his museum in Glasgow. huntiegowk, hunting.
See under hum. Huntingdonian hun-ting-dd ni-an, n a member of the Countess of
Huntingdon's Connection, a denomination of Calvinistic Methodists founded by ...
... classroom of playground terms such as huntiegowk for April Fool, or skippin
the skuil rather than playing truant, would land one in trouble, not perhaps the
application of the tawse. the dreaded Lochgelly, but enough to be going on with.
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... gammon, have on, humbug, pigeon, string, take in 07 deceive, fast one,
frameup, legpull, mystify, swindle, twotime 08 hoodwink, putup job 09 Aprilfish,
April fool, bamboozle, deception, gold brick 10 huntiegowk 11 doublecross,
huntthegowk ...
