Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A dialectal (Scotch) form of none.
Examples
“He say to the parrot "What's your name" The parrot answers, "My nane is Pedro, Jesus is the German Shepard over there.”
“JC, Thank you for the correction but the authors nane is "below" the comment!”
“Like the nane Spectrum myself as ina broad spectrum but blogger times is agood idea as well.”
“But then I will put on nane of their Popish disguises — me that has lived in North Leith, baith wife and lass, for”
“I haerd it called limon with nane and it taste's sour and sweet and probably came from the original lemonade spring.”
“He charges all and sundry "to mak nane impediment letting nor distroblance in the passing of the relik throch the contre.”
“And thou, Bethlehem, land o' Judah, nane the least amang Judah's princes! for oot o 'thee sal come a Ruler, wha sal tend my folk o' Isra'l! ”
“But gang thy way, honest Geordie; thou art a good plain man, but nane of the seven sages of Greece; gang thy way, and mind the soothfast word which you spoke, small time syne, that there is one in this land that comes near to Solomon, King of Israel, in all his gifts, except in his love to strange women, forby the daughter of”
““Ah, rough I be, and nane too bricht, but we Scots are by defineetion unco canny.””
“And a packet o 'screws had the twa emus; but the dour guidwife got nane!”
Lists
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Manx
Words that are Manx or of Manx origin. This is a language about which I know next to nothing, and therefore make no claims of being correct about anything.
See also the bound-to-remain...coghal, byddage, cronk, qualtagh, tynwald, manx loaghtan, bunscoill ghaelgagh, shassoo, credjue, nealloo, craid, mraane and 202 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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bilby Scots - none. Jan 28, 2009