clype

"Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat?"

Watershed 2010

"Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat?"

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

It's but the country clype I'll ne'er deny, gweed forbid

The Barns o' Beneuches 1998

A body in my trade canna help fa'in 'amo' ill company whiles, for we're a 'born in sin, an' brocht furth in ineequity, as the Buik. says; in fac ', it's a' sin thegither: we come o 'sin an' we gang for sin; but ye ken the likes o 'me maunna clype (tell tales).

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

'He used to clype (tell tales) upo' them, though. '

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

I'm a great coortier, ladies, you must know, and am in love wid every purty girl I meet -- but sure that's only natural; however, as I was sayin ', it's not to a clype or a pair of smooth-in' irons I'll produce such stockins 'as these!

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

An’ I told Wee Jean it was a hoodie crow to scare her ’cos she’s a wee clype an’ my dad would thrash me if he knew we were ringing doorbells.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010