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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They happit aboot her like craws on a rig, A' fechtin', or fleechin', or crackin' fell big; 'Gae 'wa', sirs, to Freuchie, for brawly it's seen It's siller yer wooin',' quo Tipperty's Jean.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
"These shoon cannot be made for siller," said the old man solemnly.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
Ay, I ken fine the auld man is chief owner, and weel he likes his siller.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
"But ye are wrang aboot the siller," cried Cubby—"there's no sae muckle o't as ye say."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
I am going where I'll be rid of whimpering wives, and whining bairns, and fleeching, flattering folk, who want siller for their fine words.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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