10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «SHILPIT»
Descubre el uso de
shilpit en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
shilpit y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Shilpit Wants a Walk Morning mist lies in the valley As the sun lights up the
sky Cuckoo calls his gentle greeting And the Shilpit wants a walk Busy bees at
midday buzzing In and out among the flowers Lazy breeze plays o'er the hillside
...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Faintness, tremor, ibid. " I kend na now what to think ; I had never been at a battle
; a kind of shilpetness cam owre me." Gall. Encycl. Shilpie, s. " A person trembling
always;"" ibid. I give these words distinctly from S/iilpie, Shilpit, adj., because ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
In like manner one sense of Shilpit in Roxb. is " cold and comfortless, ungenial ;"
Gl. Ant. SHILPIE, Shii.pit, adj. 1. Insipid. ] Add; " He pronounced the claret shilpit,
and demanded brandy with great vociferation." Waverley, i. 151. " Here ...
But, if this small indiscretion by our city leaders is publicized. Well, you know most
people just won't understand. So, you see. . .” Sangsue held up his hand to stop
Shilpit. “Mikey, at your best you were barely mediocre as a reporter, and now, ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Sc. If so be ye're no hespoke a'ready to some shilpit, fusionlcss, town hizzie,
Srroun R. Urquhart (1896) iii. Frf. It is long since any one had an affection for
shilpit, hirpling old Ballingall, BARBIE Tommy (1896) xxvii. Per. If he bed been a
shilpit, ...
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White Wings: A Yachting Romance (Complete)
What a shilpit bit thing!" Pale—slight—delicate—tiny: surelysuch a masterof
idiomatic English cannot have forgottenthe existenceof these words.But this is
allhe criesto himself, inhis surprise and wonder:— "Dear me!What a shilpit bit
thing!" ...
2) Weak, good-for-nothing, or watered-down. With its various definitions, all
clustering around the notion of worthless, shilpit is a good meat-and-potatoes
type of general insult. Happily for us all, it can be used to describe just about
anything.
Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea,
2001
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
SHI SHILPIE, SHILPIT, ad]. I. insipid. Wine is said to be sllilp'it, when it is weak,
and wants the proper taste, S. This seems the primary sense, from Su.G. skaell, '
insipidus, aquosus, Germ. schal, id. Belg. eersc'haalden zzyn, flat wine; from Teut
.
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
□SKSZ}* SHILLING-SEEDS. See Sheii.i^-seeds. SHILLINGS. See Shzilms.
SHILPIE. t. A pale, sickly, shrivelled person. SHILPIT. a. Pale; sickly; ahrivelled;
thin; cold ; insipid. SHILP1T-M1LK. s. Milk beginning to tarn acid. SHILPIT-
DR1NKING.
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
... little-boukit. insignificant-looking shilpit. insignificant person ablach, nyaff, yaff,
messan, smowt, snite SHETLAND, NE, smool NE, snauchle sw. insignificant
thing or person or animal skiddle. insincere pitten-on, sleekit; (of speech) phrasin.
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns,
1999
8 NOTICIAS EN LAS QUE SE INCLUYE EL TÉRMINO «SHILPIT»
Conoce de qué se habla en los medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales y cómo se emplea el término
shilpit en el contexto de las siguientes noticias.
Interview: Interesting twist on boring Steve Davis
It meant shilpit characters as thin as snooker cues with pasty faces skulking in the doorways, at which anxious mothers on passing buses would point and ... «Scotsman, May 15»
Robert Galbraith: The Silkworm (Sphere)
Approached by a shilpit-looking Mrs Quine to investigate her husband's disappearance, Strike finds himself entering the febrile world of publishing, a snake-pit ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 14»
The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
A Conservative who only supported equal marriage for these tactical reasons would be a poor and shilpit thing indeed. Yesterday the Scottish parliament, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Nov 13»
inFamous: Second Son - New Trailer from Gamescom 2013
... Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling ... «YouTube, Ago 13»
Glasgow Barras: Will Games fund save the Barras?
And already, on Kent Street, past the red steel archway, the shilpit sellers of fags are chanting their black market mantra, “Cigarettes! Tabacca! Viagra!”. «Scotsman, Abr 13»
Interview: Gary Armstrong, scrum-half supreme
The first time Bill McLaren clapped eyes on me he said a was a 'shilpit wee creature in need of a good dinner.' My granny, responsible for dinners at that time, ... «Scotsman, Feb 13»
Michael Marra, Bard of Dundee, dies at 60
Liz Lochhead would affectionately called him the "wee shilpit skinny guy from Dundee." He composed his own operetta If The Moon Can Be Believed, performed ... «Herald Scotland, Oct 12»
Anna Burnside: the old-fashioned small record store is not dead yet
McLean uncharitably points out the drummer's, the shilpit item in the middle. Astonishingly, he has sold two of these sets at 200 each.The last one is a crazy ... «Scotsman, Abr 11»