drappie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The true Highlander always expects to drink a wee drappie with the coming and the parting guest.
From Project Gutenberg
“No, really,” said Craig at last; “I will not tak’ a wee drappie.
From Project Gutenberg
In Dalguise and Dunkeld, Amulree and Buchanty, and scores of other grey hamlets and market towns, Sir Alec Douglas-Home shook hands with shepherds and shopkeepers, downed a wee drappie with farmers, popped into cottages, schools and smithies.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are na fou, we're na that fou, But just a drappie in our e'e; O, my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June.
From Time Magazine Archive
Onyhow, such a ride, and such a wetting, desarves a drappie of toddy, and perhaps Sir Mooray may ask me to take it.
From Project Gutenberg
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