awmous
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ye wouldna like to think of your mother trailing every week to the like of Wilson for an awmous, streeking out her auld hand for charity.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
They were just decent bien bodies; ony poor creature that had face to beg got an awmous, and welcome—they that were shamefaced gaed by, and twice as welcome.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
By my feth, sirrah?" replied the latter, amazed and irritated at the singular ease and impudence of the mendicant, and above all at his presumptuous familiarity, "but that's a new way to seek awmous.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
"A good turn," said Edie to himself, "never goes unrewarded—I'll maybe get a good awmous that I wad hae missed but for trotting on this auld wife's errand."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
"You have got a good awmous, Carey, will sleep sound, and think nothing of it on the morrow?" said the youth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
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