bricht

British  

/ brixt /

adjective

1. a Scot word for bright

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bricht

“It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht,” Nettle called out in Cockney.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"Some sing o' lords, and some o' knichts, An' some o' michty men o' war, But I sing o' a leddy bricht, The Black Agnace o' Dunnebar."

From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart

I mind that Forest Shepherd's saw, For, when men preached of Heaven, quoth he, "It's a' that's bricht, and a' that's braw, But Bourhope's guid eneuch for me!"

From Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

On the doorstep he says, wi' a bricht face on him, 'Marget, it's me that needs to thank you, for I get a lesson frae ye every time that I come here.'

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The heart plays dunt wi' main an' micht; The lasses' een are a' sae bricht, Their dresses are sae braw an' ticht, The bonny birdies!-

From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson

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