Example Sentences

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Cluty, fam. the "Old One." cod, pillow, cushion. couthiness, kindness. cowan-boat, a fishing-boat. cranreuch, hoar-frost. creel, basket. crouse, confident, crack crouse, to "talk big." cruisie, crusie, a small iron lamp. cuif simpleton. cushy-doo, cushat, dove.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

There was a kind of couthiness about old Janet, which made her hearth the resort of all the young lads and lasses, boys and girls, around.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various