neuk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Rotha walked to the neuk window and stood to think, her hand on the wheel and her eyes towards the south.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
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 Rogers, Charles
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 Johnson, Rossiter
He ended; and kebars sheuk Aboon the chorus roar; While frighted rattons backward leuk, And seek the benmost bore; A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, He skirl’d out—encore!
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 Burns, Robert
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
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