This tune appears to have been a very popular one, and several Scottish songs are to be sung to the "toon of sal I let her go."
"It was Chirsty Miller 'at put it through the toon," Henry continued.
"Put on your kep and come awa' doon the toon wi' me," she said to Erchie.
He was ben in the room searchin' the drawers when I was up i' the toon in the forenoon.
We'll awa' doon the toon and see; whit's the use o' hurryin' hame?
toon was alert on "Waterspin," with a coiled rope in his hand.
In that respect there's no a mair agreeabler lass in the toon.
There's never a man-body i' the toon kens aught aboot my age.'
Ye are doing what nae mon i' the toon daur; ye are a bauld, unwise lassy.
There must be reasoning beings on toon—where Loten's scientists had argued that they could not be!
colloquial shortening of cartoon, attested by 1985.
noun
A cartoon: ''What are you, man, some kind of visionary?'' ''No, no, I'm just an ordinary toon'' (1990s+)
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