scaud
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Dinna scaud your mouth wi' other folk's kail.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
An' here I am, her ane half brither, wi' naething i' my pooer but to scaud the hert o' her, or else lee!
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
O thou! whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Kick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an’ sootie, Closed under hatches, Spairges about the brunstane cootie, To scaud poor wretches!
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
O up then started our gudeman, An angry man was he; "Will ye kiss my wife before my een, And scaud me wi' pudding bree?"
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
O Thou! whatever title suit thee— Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd under hatches, Spairges about the brunstane cootie, To scaud poor wretches!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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