hurdies
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of hurdies
First recorded in 1525–35; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Tak’ you care, my bonnie young man, that your craig doesna feel the wecht o’ your hurdies.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Amenable?—ye may say that; his craig wad ken the weight o' his hurdies if they could get haud o' Rob.
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
To tremble under fortune’s cummock, On scarce a bellyfu’ o’ drummock, Wi’ his proud, independent stomach, Could ill agree; So, row’t his hurdies in a hammock, An’ owre the sea.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
"Suppose I should tell ye now I canna read the heid o' one printed word frae the hurdies o' it?"
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
No chained mastiff looking grimly from the kennel's mouth, but a set of cheerful and sagacious collies are seen sitting on their hurdies, or "worrying ither in diversion."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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