Examples
“He chose it," she says, "of a very large print, that I might be able to read it when I was _very auld -- forty year auld_; but the bairns pulled the leaves out langsyne."] [Footnote 45: [In writing of his little grandson's earliest lessons, Scott recalls these days in a letter to Lockhart”
“He found the phrase auld lang syne "exceedingly expressive" and thought whoever first wrote the poem "heaven inspired.”
“Ah your joking, sorry i thought with the word auld in your username it might be the typical small penis thing jocks have when it comes to fitba”
“The spire of the parish church, known as the auld kirk, commands a view of the square, from which the entrance to the kirkyard would be visible, if it were not hidden by the town-house.”
“The spire of the parish church, known as the auld kirk, commands a view of the square, from which the entrance to the kirk-yard would be visible, if it were not hidden by the town-house.”
“There's no guid ever cam 'o' ca'in 'things oot o' their ain names," she began, "an" it's my min '' at gien ever ae man was a willain, an 'gien ever ae man had rizzon no to lie quaiet whan he was doon, that man was your father's uncle -- his gran' uncle, that is, the auld captain, as we ca'd him.”
“AULD Robin Gray, sir, deestinctly 'auld' in the song," interrupted Mr. Callender with stern precision; "and I'm thinking he was not so very unfortunate either.”
“The Reverend John Blackadder, the "auld" minister of”
“I might be bringing my dad along for a few social pints ... would an 'auld' Sapper be welcome along??”
“Still, there's plenty of room in the circular back bar, where sepia snaps of 'auld' Dublin look down at you and those vaulted ceilings and primped banquettes conjure a vaguely clubby atmosphere.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘auld’.
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Fancifully antiquated words
From Chambers's Etymology Dictionary, published in 1896
brackish, breviary, decrepitude, defalcate, deglutition, hebraic, heelpiece, helminthic, auld, helotry, hematine, hejira and 27 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
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xundra Wait, besides "a Scottish word", all they had was "not new"? I think I looked up a word for this situation earlier today... >.> Aug 14, 2009
bilby Seeing as this song is so widely famous, and yet so poorly understood in its full form, allow me the liberty to post the entire lyrics and glossary here. Many thanks to hogmanay.net for this version of the Robert Burns classic, Auld Lang Syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.
And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
Meanings
auld lang syne - times gone by
be - pay for
braes - hills
braid - broad
burn - stream
dine - dinner time
fiere - friend
fit - foot
gowans - daisies
guid-willie waught - goodwill drink
monie - many
morning sun - noon
paidl't - paddled
pint-stowp - pint tankard
pou'd - pulled
twa - two Jan 28, 2009
bilby It's beautiful innit? I'd love to type in something like lambada and see a Weirdnet definition like 'a Foreign word'. Jan 4, 2008
yarb Sheer genius from weirdnet! Jan 4, 2008
seanahan I'm typically the defender of WordNet, but that's just absurd. Jan 4, 2008
bilby Scots - old. And thanks WordNET for a really useful definition :-( Jan 3, 2008