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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ... A new edition, ...
Nielt, next Nieve, the fill Nieveful, handful Niger, a negro Nifl'er, an exchange; to
exchange, to barter ' Nine-tailed cat, a~.hangman's whip. ' Nit, a nut Norland, of or
belonging'to the North . Nor-welt, North-well Notic't, noticed Nowte, black cattle ...
Naig, a horse. None, none. Neebor, a neighbour, Needfu', needful. Negleckit,
neglected. Neuk, nook. Niest, next. Nieve, the fist. Nieveful, handful. Niger, a
negro. Niffer, an exchange ; to ex. change, to barter. Nine-tailed cut, a hangman's
whip.
Robert Burns, Josiah Walker, 1811
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect: By Robert Burns. In ...
Nieve, the fift Nieveful, handful Niger, a negroe Niffer, an exchange; to exchange,
to barter Nine-tailed cat, a hangman's whip Nit, a nut Norland, of or belonging to
the North Nor-weft, North-weft Notic't, noticed Nowte, black cattle ...
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Men and Manners in Britain, Or, A Bone to Gnaw for the ...
famous had they become in these rencounters, that to threaten to give a person a
nieveful (handful) of Dalkeith meal, was understood as a most effectual
knockdown argument. I remember to have seen, in my school-boy rambles
through the ...
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The chronicles of the Caledonian Society of London, 1921-1930
Nieveful was objected to, and handful was given as correct, but Shakespeare
used neif ; the fact that English people had forgotten the language of
Shakespeare is no reason why it should be taboo. Slim, meaning slender, which
Sinclair ...
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Legends and Historical Notes on Places in the East and West ...
Nieveful, a handful. Nin, none. Nincompoop, a silly mortal. Nout, nothing.
Nuddllng, a noodle ; silly fellow. OwmUS (or awmus) a gift to a beggar. Ower,
over. Pen, a hill. Bash, rush ; a bush of rushes. BattOn, a rat. Ravel, to
disentangle. Sax, to ...
Thomas Gibson (M.D.), 1877
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... nippers 08 manacles, shackles, snippers 09 bracelets, snitchers, wristlets
handful 03 few, rip 04 hank, pain, pest, ripp 05 bunch, pugil 06 bother, little 07
fistful, loofful 08 nieveful, nuisance 10 scattering, smattering, sprinkling 11 small
amount ...
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The Nuttis Schell: essays on the Scots language presented to ...
OED gives nieveful (Scottish and northern dial.) from c. 1375 to 1863. The dialect
distribution in England is obviously important in proving the origin. As well as in
Scots, nieve is evidenced in EDD (s.v. neive) in Northern English and the East ...
Caroline Macafee, A. J. Aitken, Iseabail Macleod, 1987
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The Phonology of the Morebattle Dialect: (East ...
2) -ful > K. crfe awful ; bcrkfe backful ; disctfc deceitful ; mu'0fe mouthful 'y naefe
nieveful, clenched handful ; Anmaensf£ menseless, without good manners; te0f£
toothful; wcf£ woeful. cf. M. 136 "-FUL = (fa) mouthfu' (muthfa) " (bakfa, Haandfa, ...
Here's a gold sovereign for your nieveful of dust. You can keep a secret, I
suppose. Now, if there's gold at Cnoc Dhu, that's a secret of some little
importance, and it was very right and proper of you to come to me, the factor of
that hill-range, first ...
Edmund Hodgson Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary (Abdy-Williams) Whishaw, Walter Sydney Sichel, 1885
