neuk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The first that in the neuk does fa’ We’ll mak’ him king amang the three.”
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
A furlet of good cakes, my Elspa beuk, And a large ham hangs reesting in the neuk.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
There were pipers playing in every neuk, And ladies dancing, jimp and sma'; And aye the owreturn o' their tune Was, "Our wee wee man has been lang awa!"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
There's a ro'd up as far's yon neuk.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
Sairy be your meal-pock, and aye your nieve i' the neuk o't.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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