limmer

• ““What signifies what we, were, ye street-raking limmer!” she exclaimed, pushing her daughter before her to the door, with no gentle degree of violence.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “It wad be sair news to the auld wife below the Ben of Stuckavrallachan, that you, ye Hieland limmer, had knockit out my harns, or that I had kilted you up in a tow.”

  Rob Roy

• “‘It was all owing to you, you limmer,’ said the vulgar woman to the other; ‘had you not interfered, the old man would soon have settled the boy.’”

  Lavengro

• “But sair ye'll greet, nou naebody'll speir onie nicht for ye, limmer.”

  languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.

• “And a tongue that could jeer, too, the little limmer had,”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

• “Hieland limmer, had knockit out my brains, or that I had got you strung up in a halter.”

  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

• “What is known in Scotland as a ` limmer, 'obviously.”

  She Stands Accused

• “‘Od, lad, queerly eneugh, ’ said Dandie; ‘but I’ll tell ye that after we are done wi’ our supper, for will maybe no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o’ a lass is gaun flisking in and out o’ the room.”

  Chapter XLV

• “Skelpie-limmer’s-face, a technical term in female scolding (R. B.).”

  Glossary

• “At that, dominie, I lost patience, and I whispered, fierce-like, 'Keep your foot to yoursel', you limmer! ”

  The Little Minister

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