Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
told , preterit and past participle of tell.
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Examples
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Becuz kitteh wuz annoyeiyng teh hyuoomin, hims tauld her tuu goe and taike a flieying leep;
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I have heard their communing so often tauld ower, that I almost think I was there mysell, though I couldna be born at the time.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Ratton — they tauld me ye were hanged, man; or did ye get out
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I look, I see a face laughing like Meg Murdockson, when she tauld me I had seen the last of my wean.
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“Could they na?” said Effie, with something like awakened interest — for life is dear even to those who feel it is a burden — “Wha tauld ye that, Jeanie?”
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“Haud your peace, ye knave, and hear what I have to say till ye — We are gaun a bit into the Hielands” — “Ye tauld me sae already,” replied the incorrigible
Rob Roy 2005
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My father the deacon used aye to laugh when he tauld me how that by-word came up.
Rob Roy 2005
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“I tauld ye that ye would find nae Jacobites here.”
Rob Roy 2005
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“I tauld ye what wad come, gentlemen,” said the landlady,
Rob Roy 2005
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“Ye are bound for the ordinary, my lord?” said the cynic; — “weel, ye canna do better — there is choice company there, and peculiarly selected, as I am tauld, being, dootless, sic as it is desirable that young noblemen should herd withal — and your noble father wad have been blithe to see you keeping such worshipful society.”
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