10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «CLIPSHEARS»
Scopri l'uso di
clipshears nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
clipshears e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
Life, letters, poems, etc
I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells
of clipshears and clockers, as of yore. Then we walked round by the Sciennes,
past Eden Cottage, and away by Lover's Loan to the Grange. The place is terribly
...
David Gray, Josephus Nelson Larned, 1888
2
In My Ain Words: An East Neuk Vocabulary
Bubbly Jocks and jucks — Turkeys and ducks. Clockin' hens — Broody hens.
Wheazels or whuttricks — Weazels. Puddicks — Frogs . Golacks and clipshears
— Beetles and earwigs. Slaters and flecks — Wood lice and fleas. In the
farmyards ...
They include clipshears, collieglean, callanglean, forkietailie,hornie gollach,
gollacher, geelog, gullack, gullachan, gavelack, scotchiebell, scodgible,
switchpool and twitchbell. Manyof these are very localised. The horny golloch is
an awesome ...
"Clipshears [earwigs]." The Beatles serve to remind us how often and abruptly the
changes keep ringing in the street. The newest fashions come in, the oldest
customs die out. Our May "Bonfire Night" is no longer, for young and old, the
grand ...
James T. R. Ritchie, 1964
5
Language, poetry, and nationhood: Scots as a poetic language ...
... localism such as lummy (chimney fire), buffy (dishevelled) and clipshears (
earwig: a Scots-speaker's preferred name for this insect is often sufficient to
locate his place of origin quite precisely, as MacDiarmid's switchable also
demonstrates).
nomination (or name-giving), the verb name (/ name this child Hieronymus) is
generally used with names proper, whereas call is used more generally. (She
calk him Ethelwold/We call earwigs clipshears where I come from/I call that
handsome ...
John Mathieson Anderson, 2007
7
Golden city: Scottish children's street games & songs
a liking proved by the golden reflexion that appears when a buttercup is held
under your chin — is still a question that's asked. "Clipshears [earwigs]" are
abhorred, and so are "cloakers [beetles]," which you never stand on, or there'll be
rain.
James T. R. Ritchie, 1965
8
Newspapers in New Zealand
THOMAS BRACKEN'S PAPERS 181 the public by such descriptive soubriquets
as Mr Clipshears, Mr Sharpman, Mr Shorthand and Mr Farseer. The last was
obviously Farjeon, whose serial At the Sign of the Flagon, began in the first issue.
Guy Hardy Scholefield, 1958
In different parts of Scotland the earwig is hornie, golloch, gaylock, clipshears,
forkietail, scodgible, tethery erse(cf. the material of Linguistic Survey) a spider is
variously spider or speeder ettercap (and variants, including nettery),1 and wyver
; ...
Earwig You have more nicknames than legs — some so strange, clipshears, you'
d think people give nicknames to your nicknames. Lord God, Saviour, Father,
your nicknames are ingratiating flatteries. Devil, Auld Nick, Clootie, your
nicknames ...
