drappie
Britishnoun
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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
She shall pring her a wee drappie, and she wass nice and try up in the tower, and she wass make a nice fire.”
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn
We poored a drappie brandie doon baith their throats; an' Sandy opened his een an' says, "Ay; I've been an awfu' blackgaird; I have that!"
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
“Oh,” said Saunders, “there’s naething to pay but my ain trouble, for it’s frankit; but aiblins the mistress will gie me a bit drappie, and so I’ll come betimes i’ the morning.”
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt
Lowland eyes are apt to water in the peat-reek, but ere long we shall have another "drappie in our ee," and drink to the Clans in the "uuchristened cretur."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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