icker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of icker
1505–15; Scots form of ear 2, continuing Old English æhher, eher (Northumbrian dial.)
Example Sentences
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A daimen icker in a thrave ‘S a sma’ request: I’ll get a blessin’ wi’ the lave, And never miss’t!
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 Burns, Robert
A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't!
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner
A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' o' request I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never miss 't!
From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by Bogardus, C. A.
A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request; I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request; I'll get a blessin' wi' the laive, And never miss't!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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