neuk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Nae wants had I but were supplied; My heart wi' joy did knock, When in the neuk I smiling saw A gaucie, weel-fill'd pock.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
But, rugg her hardest, the fush stuck i' the neuk as gin he waur a bit o' the solid rock, an' her leddyship was becomin' gey an' exhaustit.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
We don't wonder Walter Scott carried her off in the neuk of his plaid, and played himself with her for hours.
From Stories of Childhood by Rossiter Johnson
We don't wonder Walter Scott carried her off in the neuk of his plaid, and played himself with her for hours....
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 Gordon Stables
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