deil
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The deil a shore I'll gang to, please Providence, but Leith shore.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
Some says the daddie o' me was the deil, and some says Mardrochat.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Noo, my lord," says the widow, "I'm sure the deil a morsel o' breakfast ye hae gotten the day yet—for it's no aboon seven o'clock; sae ye'll just tak a mouthfu wi' me."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
This charge is borne out by a proverb used by the Scot, who is a student of human nature: "If the deil were de'ed, God wad na be served so weel."
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
"And whar the deil are ye to get them?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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