daur
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"Wad ye daur to sweir afore a leddy?" she exclaimed, shaking her uplifted hands in pretence of ghasted astonishment.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
I daur say ye wad like to chum wi' me the noo.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
He wrote a challenge from Dunbar, "Come fight me, Charlie, an ye daur; If it be not by the chance of war, I'll give you a merry morning."
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
"Would ye daur to lay a finger on them?"
From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren
“I am sure, Mr. Kinlock——” “How daur you ‘mister’ me?
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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