10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLISKIE»
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Gobbledygook: A Dictionary That's 2/3 Accurate, 1/3 Nonsense ...
lomonthe,. pliskie,. joukery. lomonthe. (low-MAHNTH-uh) (noun): A spirit guide or
one's spiritual alter ego. Long before folks like James Van Praagh and John
Edwards (the “medium,” not the adulterous politician), a Nobel Prize-winning
poet ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
A fall into water, Mearns. PLIRRIE, s. V. Pl.EENGIE. PLISKIE, s. Properly, a
mischievous trick, S ] Add; " Certainly if I wad hae wared my life for you yon night,
I can hae nae reason to play an ill pliskie t'ye in the day o' your distress."
Antiquary, iii.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
A fall into water, Mearns. PLIRRIE, s. V. Pleengie. PLISKIE, *. Properly, a
mischievous trick, S ] Add; " Certainly if I wad hae wared my life for you yon night,
I can hae nae reason to play an ill pliskie t'ye in the day o' your distress."
Antiquary, iii.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Frf. it “cs .1 bonnie-like pliskic onywy, and hardly fit for an Auld Kirk elder, IAN
MACLARLN Brirrh'nsb (1895) 215. e.I-'il'. Never afore had I played sic .1 pliskie.
LATIU Tum Bodkin (186.4) viii. Ayr. I'lut, hnith' hc player] them a' a pliskic in the
end, ...
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The Works with His Lift by Allan Cunningham. -London, James ...
At mornin when frae pleugh or fauld I come.” Fergusson. Pliskie. A trick. “Their
lugs in onie rackless pliskie.” . . Nieol. Pl-umrose. Primrose. “ The plumrose and
the snawdrap Are the flowers that's dear to me.” Scots Song. Pock. A meal-bag.
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
PLISKIE, s. Properly, a mischievous trick; although sometimes used to denote an
action, which is productive of bad consequences, although without any such
intention, S. Their hearts the same, they daur'd to risk aye Their lugs in onie
reckless ...
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The Works: In Four Volumes
Pliskie. Plumrose. Peck. Poind. Poortith. Posie. “ At mornin when frae pleugh or
fauld I come.” Fergusson. A trick. . “ Their lugs in onie rackless pliskie.” - .N'iool.
Primrose. “ The plumrose and the snawdrap Are the flowers that's dear to me.
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1835
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
... (forceful) feckfu. powerless mauch(t)less. presume practice n (habit) haunt.
practise v practeese. pralse v, n (especially flatteringly) roose, reese NE. prance v
link. prank n pliskie: 'play a pliskie on, cantrip, pant, prattick NE. prawn n praan N.
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life
At mornin when frae pleugh or fauld I come." Fergusson. Pliskie. A trick. "Their
lugs in onie rackless pliskie." . . Nieol. ' Plnmrose. Primrose. " The plumrose and
the snawdrap Are the flowers that's dear to me." Scots Song. Podc. A meal-bag.
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1834
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
praise verb, noun (esp flatteringly) ruise, reezeNE. prance verb, see also strut;
brank, link, stairge s; (of an animal) winch. prank see also practical joke (under
joke); pliskie: 'play a pliskie on', cantrip, pant, skavie NE, prattick NE, prat N. play
...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
