hurdies
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of hurdies
First recorded in 1525–35; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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I'll swag, Bawbie, I never was gledder than when I cam' cloit doon on my hurdies on the garret flure.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
The last we saw o' him, he was sitting on his hurdies in the shallows, up to his neck in the water, trying what banes war hale after his stramash.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
No chained mastiff looking grimly from the kennel's mouth, but a set of cheerful and sagacious collies are seen sitting on their hurdies, or "worrying ither in diversion."
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin was help to mend a mill In time o'need, While thro' your pores the dews distil Like amber bead.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
"Suppose I should tell ye now I canna read the heid o' one printed word frae the hurdies o' it?"
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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