birse
[ burs; Scots birs ]
nounScot.
a short hair of the beard or body; a bristle.
anger; rage.
Origin of birse
1before 900; Old English byrst; cognate with Old High German borst, burst,Old Norse burst.See bristle
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How to use birse in a sentence
Tibbie birse in the Burial is great, but I think it was a journalist that got in the word “official.”
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonBut the particular flower of the flock to whom I have hopelessly lost my heart is Tibby birse.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonThe local chronicler is much perplexed by another somewhat inelegant Aberdeenshire witticism—“Gang to birse and bottle skate.”
Then in many a devious turn we wind round the northern boundary of the parish of birse.
Tibbie birse invited the newly-married couple to tea (one pound).
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