neuk
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V. I can win my five pennies a day, And spen’t at night fu’ brawlie; And make my bed in the Collier’s neuk, And lie down wi’ my Collier Laddie.
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
A furlet of good cakes, my Elspa beuk, And a large ham hangs reesting in the neuk.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
From that cozy neuk did the old fiddler play in the evening, when the spinning-wheels were put away, and the maids, generally tenants' daughters, had their dance with the stragglers from the stables and cottages.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
Maister MacPherson," said Malcolm, with an inclination of his head towards the gamekeeper, "micht ha' fun' a fitter neuk to fling that dirt intill.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
When winter winds blaw sharp and shrill O'er icy burn and sheeted hill, The ingle neuk is gleesome still At the foot o' Bennachie.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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