Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
silver .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Silver.
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Examples
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Those feckless Irish fowk aye tak 'the speerits o' oor native land gin they hae the siller, which isna likely.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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When his find became known in the village, it created quite a sensation amongst the inhabitants, owing to the "siller" having fallen into the hands of a "Saxon," and he gravely added to the information that one-half of the people went in mourning and that it was even mentioned in the kirk as the "awfu '" waste that had occurred in the parish!
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Mr. Traill, and, concluding that here was some property to be guarded, stood by the "siller" as stanchly as a soldier.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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Haith! noo a days the last 'ill come first, an' a fish cadger wi 'siller' ill be coontit
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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At an early age the average Scot is characterized by this passion to get on by thrift, love of "siller," a puritanic mode of thought, and an imperishable love of his country which, however, does not prevent him from leaving it in order to enter into mercantile or other pursuits in the farthest parts of the earth -- or the nearest, it really does not matter -- so long as he gets a decent start.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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"siller;" and are far from the commission of any such idle waste as
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various
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'The lyin' siller '”' Eh yes; how clear she is about everything! '
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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It's why I think this set up with Nico silly and even siller that Rahm grinned about how clever this must have seemed of him.
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“Oh, weel eneugh, weel eneugh — sometimes he will fling in a lang word or a bit of learning that our farmers and bannet lairds canna sae weel follow — But what of that, as I am aye telling them? — them that pay stipend get aye the mair for their siller.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Meiklewham; “but as you are sae very pressing, I hae been thinking — Whan is the siller wanted?”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona (1892), pt. I, ch. 1November 19, 2015