neuk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It is a lovely neuk this Braehead, preserved almost as it was 200 years ago.
From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter
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 Chambers, William
It is a lovely neuk, this Braehead, preserved almost as it was two hundred years ago.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
By some dikeside they'll find a bield, Some couthy neuk by muir or field They're sure to hit, Where, frae the blatherin' wind concealed, They'll rest a bit.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Deil a word said Leddy Carline tae me for a gey while, as she vrought an' vrought tae gar the saumon quit his neuk.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald
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