yae
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"The craw doesna bigg his nest wi' yae strae!"
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Four and twanty siller bells65 Wer a' tyed till his mane, And yae tift o' the norland wind, They tinkled ane by ane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
An' that it wad be tellin' them yae day, gin they had made as guid a job o' their life wark as Birsay made o' his bits o' shoon—a maist sensible an' just observe!
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
But yae nicht Yon sent Gibbie's sin to find him oot; or maybe the Black Thing in the Hole gat lowse, because it was his hour.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
I am heartily obligated to your Highness for her maist kind offer, and I will accept it on yae condeetion.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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