10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLOUKY»
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30 Ye tipplers, open a' your poses, Ye wha are faushed wi' plouky noses, Fling
owr your craig sufficient doses, You'll thole a hunder, To fleg awa' your simmer
roses, 35 And naething under. Whan big as burns the gutters rin, Gin ye hae
catcht ...
Christopher Maclachlan, 2010
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The Works of Robert Fergusson
... wives,' the crowding ' browster shoppies,' the parti-ragged ' blue-gown bodies,'
the ' plouky-nosed' bon vivant, the consequential ' bailie,' the dressed-up '
Macarony,' the ' clashing servants,' the jovial ' club,' the lazy ' chairman,' the '
usefu' ...
Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart, 1851
... atque Oldomoudus, Qui pleugham longo gaddo drivare solebat, Et Rob Gib
wantonus homo, atque Oliver Hutchin, Et plouky fac'd Wattie Strang, atque in-
kneed Alshinder Atken, Et Willie Dick heavy-arstus homo, pigerrimus omnium,
Qui tulit ...
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Scottish Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
... the tinkler, I trow ; And there will be bow-legged Robbie, And thumbless Katie's
good-man, And there will be blue-cheeked Dallie, And Laurie the laird o' the Ian'.
Fy, let us all, &c. And there will be sow-libber1 Patey, And plouky-faced 2 Wat.
Ye 're a heart breaking, ne'er-do-weel loon, John Maut, Working mischief morn, e'
enin' and noon, John Maut, Wi' thy big plouky beak, Bluidy e'e, and white cheek,
Ye 've disgraced ere noo pulpit and gown, John Maut. Your heart 's cauld, and ...
6
The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden
... [ken, Et plouky fac'd Wattie Strang.atque in-kneed Alshinder At- Et Willie l)ick
heavy-arstus homo, pigerrimus omnium, Qui tulit in pileo magnum rubrumque
favorem, Valde lethus pugnare, sed hunc corngrevius heros Noutheadum vocavit
, ...
William Drummond, William Barclay Turnbull, 1856
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The Journal of Agriculture
Thus Robert Fergus- son says — ' Ye tipplers, open a' your poses, Ye wha are
fashed wi' plouky noses, Fling ower your eraig sufficient doses, You'll thole a
hunder, To fleg awa' your simmer roses, And naething under. ' In the rural districts
...
... [ken, Et plouky fac'd Wattie Strang, atque in-kneed Alshinder AtEt Willie Dick
heavy-arstus homo, pigerrimus omnium, Qui tulit in pileo magnum rubrumque
favorem, Valde lethus pugnare, sed hunc corngrevius heros Noutheadum vocavit
, ...
William Drummond, William B. Turnbull, 1856
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Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets,
... the tinkler, I trow; And there will be bow-legged Robbie, And thumbless Katie's
good-man, And there will be blue-cheeked Dallie, And Laurie the laird o' the Ian'.
Fy, let us all, &c. And there will be sow-libber' Patey, And plouky-faced2 Wat i'.
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Tammas Bodkin: or the Humours of a Scottish tailor. By W. D. ...
landlord as I supposed), wi' a paunch swollen oot like a balloon, an' a red plouky
face, an' wha reminded me 0' the giant Blunderbore wham I had seen painted in
story beuks ; in the street in front 0' a fourth were collected a c-rood 0' dirty, wild, ...
William Duncan Latto, 1868
