hieland
adjective Scot dialect
a variant of Highland
characteristic of Highlanders, esp alluding to their supposed gullibility or foolishness in towns or cities
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Examples from the Web for hieland
Historical Examples of hieland
I can speak it well eneugh, for my mother was a Hieland woman.'
WaverleySir Walter Scott
I'd have fought for the 'Hieland laddie' myself if I'd been a man in his days.
The Jolliest School of AllAngela Brazil
And yet I'm Hieland born, and when the clan pipes, who but me has to dance?
David Balfour, Second PartRobert Louis Stevenson
I can speak it weil eneugh, for my mother was a Hieland woman.'
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, CompleteSir Walter Scott
It was worse than the most outrageous Gaelic ever spoken in the height of passion by a Hieland shearer.
The Life of Mansie WauchDavid Macbeth Moir