10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «CUSHIE-DOO»
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cushie-doo en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
cushie-doo y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
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Gleanings of the Gloamin
TO THE "CUSHIE DOO." Idol of my early days, Come, O come thou in the rays
Youthful fancy round thee threw ! Be again my " cushie doo." Never ! no, it cannot
be ; And the fault is all in me. What a transport filled my breast When I first beheld
...
He had succeeded, but returning with his booty through a wood, heard the cushie
doo overhead calling plain as could be : ' Tak twa coos, Tammy — tak twa coos ! '
Such advice squared far too well with the hero's own inclinations to be ...
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Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
He had succeeded, but returning with his booty through a wood, heard the cushie
doo overhead calling plain as could be : ' Tak twa coos, Tammy — tak twa coos ! '
Such advice squared far too well with the hero's own inclinations to be ...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1864
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
... cushie-doo (N), cushie-dow (5), same. 13. Cushie, a timid person; a coward. N.
[Sc. (and E.) cushat = 1.] §CUSTRIL, sb. Rxb., N. Also icuistrel (W). A fool, dolt, or
silly person: “A cowardly custril” (Kelso Chron. 1 Jan. 1915). “The auld laird 0f ...
5
A Waterfowler's Bedside Book
... times there is hardly a bird to be seen. Footnote: Strictly speaking, the Scottish
word “doo” refers to any species of pigeon or dove. “Cushie” or “Cushie-doo”
refers to the wily woodpigeon. No-one said it was Easy I suppose I should have
47.
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
... pig-hoose, ree(ve). pigtall pleat. plg in a poke blin bargain. plgeon n doo; (tame
) rookettie doo; (wood pigeon) cushat, cushie (doo), croodlin doo NE. pigeonhole
n doocot. pigeon-toed hen-taed, in-taed. plle n (heap) bing; (especially loose) ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
worn wood-pigeon cushat, cushie(-doo), croodlin doo NE. wood-shavings see
shavings. infested with woodworm moch-et- ten NE. wool oo, woo. woollen oo(en
): 'oo ha. natural undyed woollen cloth hodden gray. woolly ooie, oo. all one wool
...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
... to bough, the whistle of the mavis perched near its nestling-place in the heart of
a leafy beech or oak, and the coo-cooing of the cushat — the cushie doo of the
bird-nesting schoolboy — as we have seen it a hundred times walking to and fro,
...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1836
9
The London and Edinburgh magazine
... birken shaws, and bees' bykes ; hazels, and heather braes ; the cushie doo
croodlin in the gloaming, and the laverock lilting his matin hymn to the rising sun,
— bean-fields and clover- fields, wild-flowers and streamlets, meandering in
music ...
10
The new British Novelist: comprising works by the most ...
puir burdalane, there where ye sit—-a' that's left i' the brave eagle's nest, ae puir
cushie-doo croodling lanely to hide the wound that's rankling in its breast !”—And
looking round on the de Bruce tenantry, as if appealing to them in words of that ...
2 NOTICIAS EN LAS QUE SE INCLUYE EL TÉRMINO «CUSHIE-DOO»
Conoce de qué se habla en los medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales y cómo se emplea el término
cushie-doo en el contexto de las siguientes noticias.
Billy Connolly's Funny, But Not Clever, Comedy
And - but my favorite is a wood pigeon, is a cushie-doo. CONAN: That is an absolutely dead-on approximation of its sound. CONNOLLY: Isn't it ... «WWNO, Nov 12»
The Fifer who taught Arsenal how to play
... and selling bicycles under the brand name Cushie-Doo - from above the family home in Plumstead, a stone's throw from Woolwich Arsenal. «Scotsman, Ago 07»
