dirdum
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dirdum
1400–50; Scots: blame, scolding, (earlier) altercation, uproar, late Middle English (north) durdan uproar, din < Scots Gaelic; compare Irish deardan, MIr dertan storm, rough weather
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It's a sore thing to do between such near friends; but if I get the dirdum* of this dreadful accident, I'll have to fend for myself, man.
From Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
There’s no a hair on ayther o’ the Weirs that hasna mair spunk and dirdum to it than what he has in his hale dwaibly body!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
"But," he added, "there was nae occasion to gie me sic a dirdum: a word wad hae pitten me mair i' the wrang."
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
I just got a glisk o' him, for the first and last time, in the middle o' the dirdum at Worcester.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
There's no a hair on ayther o' the Weirs that hasna mair spunk and dirdum to it than what he has in his hale dwaibly body!
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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