messan-dog

It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

Rob Roy 1887

Guiyock, * wha hadna as muckle o 'him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog -- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o' a human thrapple; -- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Guiyock, * wha hadna as muckle o 'him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog -- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o' a human thrapple; -- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Guiyock,66 wha hadna as muckle o’ him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog — sic awsome language as that I ne’er heard out o’ a human thrapple; — and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

Rob Roy 2005