yill
Americannoun
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Only, however, we must get an additional pint of yill from the clachan; you know this is my last evening with you, and was to be a merry one at any rate.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
There are several local additions to this saying, such as "Dunse dings a' for braw lads and drucken wives;" "for gude yill and bonnie lasses," &c.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Her bread it’s to bake,her yill is to brew;My sister’s a widow,and sair do I rue.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
"Some will spend, and some will spare, And wilfu' folk maun hae their will; Syne as ye brew, my maiden fair, Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill."
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
The beginning lines are— "There's braw yill, Down at the mill, Bab at the bowster," &c.
From Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
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