neuk
Americannoun
noun
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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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
"Ow! naething but a bit sang that I cam' upo' the ither day i' the neuk o' an auld newspaper."
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
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
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