10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUGARALLIE»
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Traditional Dialect in the Modern World: A Glasgow Case Study
26F6CB: Three empty pokes an that's you. (29B) 3.3.5 What do you call liquorice
? Sugarallie. Sugarallie, liquorice, 19th century reduction of late 16th century
sucker alacreische (SND). Munro (1985) finds that the phrase 'like sugarollie-
water' ...
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Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft
26F6CB: Three empty pokes an that's you. (29B) 3.3.5 What do you call liquorice
? Sugarallie. Sugarallie, liquorice, 19th century reduction of late 16th century
sucker alacreische (SND). Munro (1985) finds that the phrase 'like sugarollie-
water' ...
Also ob— SOleSCent sugarallie hat, a tall hat as originally worn by the police,
hence 19th c sugarallie, police. Glasgow. SWEDGER, n. Sweet (MacLaren). (Cf.
Scots swauger, long drink of alcohol, from swage, v. settle down (of the stomach ...
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
2 (alcohol: see also whisky) wheich, pundie; (esp weak) skink, jute ORKNEY; (
small amount of) skite, skirp NE, tuithfu. liquorice lickerie, sugarallie, alicreesh,
black sugar. liquorice drink sugarallie watter. liquorice root (chewed by children)
...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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The singing street: Scottish children's games, rhymes & sayings
John Brown's Cuddie o- John Brown's •cuddie has a sugarallie tail • horse,
donkey John Brown's cuddie has a sugarallie tail John Brown's cuddie has a
sugarallie tail And he 6sooks it a' day long. * sucks Tune: Marching thro Georgia.
James T. R. Ritchie, 1964
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
SUGARALLIE, s. The vulgar name for sugar of liquorice, S. Sugarcllie, Fife.
lVaIlace. ]I0ulate.— Fr. To SUGG, r. 11. To move heavily, somewhat in a rocking
manner, S.—Su.G. swig-a, loco cedere. It seems probable, however, that this is
the ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
If you happen to be an Italian sharpshooter, you could wear a bersaglieri hat, a
hat with a dark plume of cock's feathers; if you are a policeman of a retro bent,
you could wear a sugarallie hat, a tall cylindrical hat, formerly much worn by ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Angl. A. 1457. Du Cange. Sufraiges, prieres pour le morts ; Roquefort.
SUGARALLIE, *. The vulgar name for sugar of liquorice, S. To SUGG, v. n. To
move heavily.] Add; It seems probable, however, that this is the same SUM •with
O.E. Stvagge.
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The Oxford Companion to Food
Another dialect term, this time Scottish, is 'sugarallie', a shortened version of the
16th-century term sugar alicreesh. Before the advent ofmass-marketed soft drinks
, children made 'liquorice water' by soaking a stick of liquorice until it dissolved ...
Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, 2014
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Angl. A. 1457. Du Cange. Sufraiges, prieres pour le morts ; Roquefort.
SUGARALLIE, -s. The vulgar name for sugar of liquorice, S. To SUGG, v. n. To
move heavily.] Add; It seems probable, however, that this is the same SUM with
O.E. Stvagge.
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Scotland has a bitter history with the sugar industry
... with the sugaries (the factories that refined the stuff), with sugarallie water, sugar biscuits, sugarbools and sugardoddles (sweeties) and a sugar-piece (butter ... «Herald Scotland, Nov 12»
