tapsalteerie
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of tapsalteerie
C17: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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"Things will go tapsalteerie, Allan, but let them; we will have a bite and a cup of kindness together."
From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
But gie me a canny hour at e’en, My arms about my dearie, O; An’ warly cares, an’ warly men, May a’ gae tapsalteerie, O. IV.
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
But gie me a cannie hour at e'en, My arms about my dearie, O; An' war'ly cares, an' war'ly men, May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
An' warl'ly cares, an' warl'ly men, May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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