10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUMPHY»
Discover the use of
tumphy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tumphy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Anglo-American Magazine
One of the party, named Bankier of Glen Tumphy, was a peculiarly stolid looking
personage. In obesity he might have measured swords with Shakspeare's "fat
knight," and there was a dreamy stupidity about the general expression of his ...
2
All Youse That Want Pies and Other Pieces
... the muckle stot from Johnshaven, the gyte gadgie from Gala, the glaikit
Lanarkian, the Bonkle tumphy, the donnert doon-hamer,6 the Melrose mellheid,
the Gurdon gype, the Girvan gomerel, the Peeblesshire sumph and the Orkney
gowk, ...
3
Idylls o'hame, and other poems
James Nicholson. An' what is she, but jist a bigger wean? Has scarce a min' ae
minute o' her ain— A perfect taupy, wi' less sense or wit Than the bit bairnie todlin
' at her fit. Puir tumphy ! to prefer sic things to me. Brass nails! red leather! a' ...
4
The Entail: Or, The Lairds of Grippy
Surely neither you nor that unreve- rent and misleart tumphy your wife, our Meg,
would refuse to be present at the occasion ?" " 'Deed, Leddy, I'm unco sweert ; I'll
no deny that," replied Dirdumwhamle, " If it is to take place this day, and in this ...
'Surely neitheryounor that unreverent and misleart tumphy your wife, our Meg,
would refuse to be present at the occasion?' ''Deed, Leddy, I'm uncosweert; I'
llnodenythat,' replied Dirdumwhamle. 'Ifitisto take place this day,and inthis house,
...
6
Scots and Its Literature
Meg, for venturing to question a decision of her mother's, becomes "that
unreverent and misleart tumphy" (264). Robina receives the blistering epithet "Ye
Israelitish handmaid and randy o' Babylon" (260); and Walky Milrookit, after a
harangue ...
7
The English dialect dictionary
Also written tumphie, tumphy, and in form tumph. [te'mfi.] A stupid, dull, awkward
person. Also used al/rib. Sc. A tumph gies me twa bawbces, but a clever wecl~put
-on fallow like you are aye gies mea white sixpence, HISLOP Auredole (1874) ...
8
Twentieth Century Scottish Drama
The first yin's aye his mither's big tumphy. JOHN: Aye . . . weel . . . mebbe they
cannae help it. ISA: Mebbe no; but Goad help the wife that gets stuck wi the
tumphy. JOHN: She's been a guid mother tae the lot o them, Isa, and Goad knows
we've ...
Cairns Craig, Randall Stevens, 2010
9
Judge's Library: A Monthly Magazine of Fun
SERGEANT — " Look here, Tumphy, we don't want your kids loafing 'round the
station house." OFFICER TUMPHY — " Plaze, sor, Oi had t" bring him or shtay
away mesilf. He shwallyd me shield this mar-rnin'." OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!
Aline Templeton. greyhound, too, a pretty creature, which stood watchfully beside
its mistress, but after a moment, when Tamheld out his hand, it came overtolaya
trusting headon his knee. Christinacackled. 'Oh, they know asoft tumphy when ...
