deil
Americannoun
noun
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Wha the deil could hae tellt you that I was on the tramp, and that I was coming this way?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
Every fellow for himself, and deil take the hindmost!
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
"And whar the deil are ye to get them?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
God's daylicht is guid eneuch for Birsay, an' as lang as the sun shines, there's nae fear o' deil or witch-wife gettin' haud o' the puir cobbler chiel!
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
But he didna catch Jock, for Jock said gin he had beat the deil flat-fit in a race, he wasna feared for any Lennox o' the squad.
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
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