smeddum

There's naethin 'waur nor Sim MacTaggart oot there i' the gairden, wastin 'his wund on a wumman that's owre muckle ta'en up i' the noo wi 'the whillywhaes o' a French sneckdrawer that haesnae the smeddum to gi'e her a toozlin 'at the' oor she needs it maist.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

He'll want smeddum and manly discipline; that's the stuff to make the soldier.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

It wasn't your father – he hasn't the smeddum of a flea – but he wouldn't send you to do what he dassn't do himself.

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

It wasn't your father -- he hasn't the smeddum of a flea -- but he wouldn't send you to do what he dassn't do himself.

Rainbow Valley 1908

[3] _Trauchle_, a poor trollop who trails about; _smeddum_, grit.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

But I'm thinkin 'she will be gey cautious in the futur' aboot belittlin 'the smeddum o'

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

'Ow ay,' answered Robert; 'he's no ill aff for smeddum (spirit) -- that is, gin it be for ony ither body.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

But this didna shuit my leddy; she wasna to be left afore she said gang! sae she cried him back, an 'he cam, bannet in han'; an 'she leuch, an' made as gien she had been but tryin 'the smeddum o' 'im, an' thoucht him a true k-nicht.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"For my part," she resumed, recovering her previous posture -- "for my part, it's a very caldrife way of life to dine every day on coffee; broth and beef would put mair smeddum in the men; they're just a whin auld fogies that Mr. Andrew describes, an 'no wurth a single woman's pains."

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

They were baith bred to mainers by the beuk, and onie ane o 'them had as muckle smeddum and rumblegumtion as the half o' some presbyteries that you and I baith ken.

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777