driech

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'Autumn' is around the corner, while a 'driech' (a potent Scots word which means exactly what you think it does) summer is behind us.

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  • 'Autumn' is around the corner, while a 'driech' (a potent Scots word which means exactly what you think it does) summer is behind us. —  WordPress.com News
  • Na, it was a driech employ, and praise the Lord that I have warstled through with it! " —  Catriona
  • "A driech outlook, my friend. —  A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
  • During the next three years (and that is a long driech time) I made many excuses for not going down to Eden Valley. —  The Dew of Their Youth
  • "You are a bloodthirsty maid," said I. "Well, I know it is good to sew and spin, and to make samplers," she said, "but if you were to do nothing else in the great world, I think you will say yourself it is a driech business; and it is not that I want to kill, I think. —  Catriona
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