10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KEBBOCK»
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Scottish songs, ballads and poems
THE KEBBOCK, THE CAKE, AN' THE COG. There 's fun in your frolics, an'
Thanksgiving Day Is famous for feeding an' great in its way ; But gie me the lan'
whar auld plays are in vogue, An' the cake an' the kebbock gaes down wi' a cog.
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The English dialect dictionary
Also written kebback ne.Sc.; kebbock Sc.; kebbuc Dmb.; kebuck Lnk. Dmf.; and in
forms cabbac Inv.; cabback Inv. Abd.; kebec Frf.; kebuck(e Abd. s.Sc.; kibbock Frf.
Riif. Slk. [ke'bek] l. A whole clieesc ; gm. one of great size. Sc. A huge kebbock ...
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Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of ...
The wolf abandons his claim in return for a kebbock, a cheese with qualities as
illusory as those of the Nekhering, discussed below (below, 185, 188). The
kebbock at the foot of the well is as difficult for the fox to handle as, in the other
episode, ...
4
Walks and wanderings in the world of literature, by the ...
In fifteen minutes he returned with a large kebbock of cheese, and a bottle of
whisky. Hard by lay a round stone, about seven feet in length and six feet in
circumference. Cameron's men took this stone and fixed one end of it in the
ground.
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The Poetical Works: With the Life of the Author
Neist the gudewife her hireling damsels bids Glour thro' the byre, and see the
hawkies bound, Tak tent case crummy tak her wonted tids, And ca' the laiglen's
treasure on the ground, Whilk spills a kebbock nice, or yellow pound. Then a' the
...
Robert Fergusson, David Irving, 1800
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Place Names in Much of North-East Scotland
... suggested as being near Smiddyseat by Dempster (The) Kebboch Pot (OS, F '
kebak), should be Kebbock, Scots Kebbock is cheese, Pot a deep pool Kebholes
(OS, C keb'holz, nickname Kebbie, farmer Kebbies C "kebiz), Scots Keb a ewe ...
7
Summers and Winters in the Orkneys
Gudewife gae to your kebbock-creel — We're a' Queen Mary's men, And see thou
count the kebbock's weel, And that's before our Lady. Gudewife gae to your
gealding-vat* — We're a' Queen Mary's men, An' let us drink till our lugs crack, ...
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Glasgow, past and present: illustrated in Dean of guild ...
The lady being well pleased with the washing and the white appearance of the
linens, not only paid Janet her full demand for her labour, but also treated her to a
dram, and a whang from a kebbock, or skim-milk cheese, which she inclosed ...
James Pagan, Robert Reid, 1856
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The Cabinet of the Scottish Muses Selected from the Works of ...
Neist the gudewife her hireling damsels bids Glour thro' the byre, and see the
hawkies bound, Tali tent case crummy tak her wonted tids, And ca' the laiglen's
treasure on the ground, Whilk spills a kebbock nice, or yellow pound. Then a' the
...
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Lumsden & Son's Steam-boat Companion, Or, Stranger's Guide ...
At the close of the entertainment, when the fatal kebbock was produced, she
addressed herself to the party, and wished that all her enemies, and the enemies
of her house, might be served in the same manner as she would serve the
kebbock ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KEBBOCK»
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... Serious but everything to do with what was called in Gaelic a "cabag" or, in parlance of the time, a "kebbock" — big rounds of local cheese. «Inverness Courier, Jul 11»
