10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCULDUDDERY»
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sculduddery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sculduddery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Leeing Davie. The widow. The love match. The lowland laird ...
... and false rumours ; and the story about Mrs. Templeton was so rich and prolific,
that it eclipsed all the foreign news that had been brought to the club for months,
and furnished the most interesting scandal and sculduddery for the whole night.
Sculduddery, relating to what is unchaste. Scunner, disgust. Sealgh, selch, seal ;
sea- calf. Sea-maw, sea-mew ; sea-gull. Seannachie, Highland antiquary. Seer,
sure. Seiled, strained through a cloth, or sieve. Seiped, oozed ; seiping, oozing.
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Comic poems of the years 1685, and 1793; on rustic scenes in ...
For smokan', tiplan', gossipan', As lang as they can see ; For hatchan' tales, and
nursan' lees, And for sculduddery foul, For clishmaclavers, bites, and taunts, Till
they each other sowl : (40) Here blear-eed phrasan' Marion dwells, Wi' 'er pipe ...
Robert Brown (of Newhall.), Lintoun green, 1817
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
[Sc. (1713) sculduddery fornication] SCULL, sb. N, w—s. = SKEEL sb. [Sc. (1816)
.] SCULT, sb. N. A blow with the flat of the hand. [Sc. (1766).] SCULT, v. N. tr. To
strike with or on the palm of the hand. SCUM, sb. G. A darkening gloom ...
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Waverley Novels: Castle dangerous
Sculduddery, relating to what is unchaste. Scunner, disgust. Sealgh, Belch, seal ;
sea-calf. Sea-maw, sea-mew; sea-gull. Seannachie, Highland antiquary. Seer,
sure. Seiled, strained through a cloth or sieve. Scipcd, oozed; seiping, oozing.
... and false rumours ; and the story about Mrs. Templeton was so rich and prolific,
that it eclipsed all the foreign news that had been brought to the club for months,
and furnished the most interesting scandal and sculduddery for the whole night.
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The Works of Shakespeare
Even discounting this, we for our part find the intolerable deal of sculduddery, the
proportion it bears to the rest of the legend, not insignificant. To oblige the
moralists, however, we will score it out: the more readily because 'the play's the
thing,' ...
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The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes
Sculduddery, relating to what is unchatte. Scunner, disgust. Sealgh, selch, seal ;
sea-calf. Sea- maw, sea-mew ; sea-gull. Seannachic, Highland antiquary. Seer,
sure. Seiled, strained through a cloth, or sieve. Seiped, oozed ; seiping, oozing.
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Scoor-oot: a dictionary of Scots words and phrases in ...
Sapsy is from saps, bits of bread soaked in hot milk as a dish for children: saps is
the plural of sap, a Scots equivalent of English sop. sculduddery Skulduggery
developed the sense of underhand malpractice in America, and is now regarded
...
James A. C. Stevenson, Iseabail Macleod, 1989
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, ...
Scudlar, scullion. Scull, shallow Jish-baskcl. Sculduddery, relating to what is
unchaste. Scunner, disgust. Sealgh, selch, seal; sea-calf. Sea-maw, sea-mew ;
sea-gull. Seannachie, Highland antiquary. Seer, sure. Seilcd, strained through a
cloth, ...
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Words with dark roots
The Oxford English Dictionary says it comes from a word that first appeared in the early 1700s, “sculduddery,” which meant “obscene” or “an obscenity.”. «Columbia Journalism Review, Jun 15»
