Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Mischievous; troublesome.
Examples
“So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of”
“So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of Pitmurkie.”
“-- constables, keep him fast! where that ill-deedie hempy is, ye are sure that Alan Fairford is not far off.”
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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chained_bear Usage on sharg. Jan 26, 2010