Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
shy .
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Examples
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Look'd asklent and unco skeigh, [askance, very skittish]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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But what wi’ the dirdum an’ confusion, an’ the loupin here and there of the skeigh brute of a horse, I believe I crammed them baith into his hand cheek-by-jowl, and maybe my ain was bunemost; and say there was aught wrang, I am sure I had a’ the fright and a’ the risk —”
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But what wi 'the dirdum an' confusion, an 'the loupin here and there of the skeigh brute of a horse, I believe I crammed them baith into his hand cheek-by-jowl, and maybe my ain was bunemost; and say there was aught wrang, I am sure I had a' the fright and a 'the risk -- "
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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