siller
Americannoun
noun
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silver
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money
adjective
Etymology
Origin of siller
a Scot variant of silver
Example Sentences
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There needs nae waste o' siller to gar me do that.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
"My love gae me a siller wand, 'Twas to rule ower a' Scotland;10 And she gae me a gay gowd ring, The virtue o't was above a' thing."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
An' noo to face the kirkward mile: The guidman's hat o' dacent style, The blackit shoon, we noo maun fyle As white's the miller: A waefü' peety tae, to spile The warth o' siller.
From A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dinna believe him, hinny; the man that can win siller at the law, will lose it naewhere.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
My secret's oot; an', whether that callant tells Sleuthie or no, it's clear I canna keep langer this siller in a thatched cottage.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
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