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cauld

[kawld, kahld, kawd]

adjective

Scot.
  1. cold.



cauld

/ kɔːld /

adjective

  1. a Scot word for cold

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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But she has stuck to her roots, and last September she released The Cauld - a pop song written in Scots.

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To this day, every time I see a white hoar frost I think "cranreuch cauld", remembering Burns's "To a Mouse".

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"Cauld steel—tak' you that!" cried Peter Greg the Scot as he let out with his left, and knocked Nosey Cuthbert over backwarks into the hall of the castle.

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Some were hiding away from the "cauld blast" in the nooks between the dense branches; some were hanging upon the little cones, swinging and clinging like acrobats; some were taking short flights through the smoke to warm their toes, or sitting on the bare rock near the top of the chimney.

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The prime o' our land are cauld in the clay.

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