10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPEUG»
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A speug, in south of Scotland speech, is a sparrow or 'sparra' as they have it in
Glasgow. As children we used to chant the rhyme Twa wee burds sat on a barra
The yin was a speug and the ither a sparra. Sadly, the richness of the speech of ...
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The linguistic atlas of Scotland: Scots section
Kincardine Sparrow - 3, 5-6, 8, 12, 17c Spug 3,6,11,15,18,2021,27 Spuggie - 18-
19, 21-22, 24-26, 28 Spurg - 5 Spurgie - 1-5, 7-14, 16, 17abcd, 23 Kinross
Sparrow — 2 Speuch -1,3 Speug - 1-3, 5-7 Spug- 1, 4,6 Angus Sparrow- 17b, 18,
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J. Y. Mather, H. H. Speitel, G. W. Leslie, 1975
Muirtown Seminary was an imposing building of the classical order, facing the north meadow and commanding from its upper windows a fine view of the river Tay running rapidly and cleanly upon its gravel bed.
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the ...
Acts Ja. VI. V. Spack. SPETIT, part. pa. Pierced. Douglas.— Isl. spiot, hasta ; Teut.
tpet-en, fodicare. SPEUG, ». A tall, meagre person, Upp. Clydes. Renfr.; synon.
Spaig.— Su. G. spok, spoeke, Germ, spuk, Belg. spook, a spectre. SPEUG LE, s.
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.), John Longmuir, 1867
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All Youse That Want Pies and Other Pieces
7. That is how it sounded to the newcomer to Glasgow. 'See's ower a basin, nurse
' means literally 'See us over a basin, nurse'. This is a Glasgow expression for '
Pass me a basin, nurse'. 8. To have a 'dry boak' is to retch. 9. A speug in south of
...
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Two Soldier Boys: "Bert" (Lieutenant Walter Bertram Wood, ...
He stole Speug's meat, and hid it cunningly ; he turned the straw out of the barrel
when Speug did not happen to be at home ; and, most serious of all, he chose
the opportunity, when Speug was enjoying an hour of glorious relaxation, with ...
Walter Bertram Wood, Edwin Leonard Wood, 1919
But there are characters in Young Barbarians quite as good as Speug, and
incidents quite as happy as the retirement of Bulldog. The soldierly Dunc
Robertson, the “useful” (as athletes would say) Jock Howieson, the spirited little
English boy ...
Madam of The Mound, by Speug Mc- Guffle ex Sally of The Mound. Pure white,
long clean head, black Jap eye, good in body; winner of 25 prizes including,
winners and specials. Can still win and is a very fine brood bitch. Registered.
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Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment
... For the invariably hierarchical meaning of dpx speug and dpxispeig in a
Jewish context, see NDIEC vol. 2, 18—19. “ That this official was of a higher
status than the ordinary synagogal archon, is shown quite clearly by the
sequence of ...
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The London dispensatory: containing I. The elements of ...
Ra SpeUg'ans (Steed.), Szpigks (Polish.), Unjienakulloo (Tanu), Sulfuro d'
Antimonio (/.), Antimonio (Portvg.), Kohul (Arab.), Surmeh (H. Pers. Duk.), Sauvira
(San.). Sulphuret of antimony is commonly sold in loaves, under the name of
crude ...
Anthony Todd Thomson, 1826
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So a frog is a puddock and sparrow is a speug. So I've never used speug in a sentence, but when I was a boy, we used puddock. So I don't go around trying to ... «WWNO, Nov 12»
