tawpie

I'm dootin 'Moses hasna muckle o' a hame wi 'her, the gloidin' tawpie

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He canna bear the tawpie, and doesna like to hae her p'inted oot as his sister.

The Making of Mary 1898

I hae ken'd mony an honest man wadna hae ventured this length without he had made his last will and testament --- Mattie had ill-will to see me set awa 'on this ride, and grat awee, the sillie tawpie; but it's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang barefit.' '

Rob Roy 1887

'A silly tawpie that would be mair trouble than half a dozen sick, 'as she chose to declare.

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

` ` Canny, ye silly tawpie! think ye ae auld wife's less canny than anither? unless it be Alison Breck --- I really couldna in conscience swear for her; I have kent the boxes she set fill'd wi 'partans, when' '------

The Antiquary 1845

"Mattie had ill will to see me set awa on this ride, and grat awee, the silly tawpie; but it's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang barefit."

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Effie --- she's strange to this place and to its ways, and to a 'our ways, Mr. Sharpitlaw; and she greets, the silly tawpie, and she's breaking her heart already about this wild chield; and were she the mean's o' taking him, she wad break it outright. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

--- Ye silly tawpie '' (addressing the maid-servant as she entered), ` ` what garr'd ye busk up your cockemony that gate?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

I want to see what that hellicate quean Jenny Ritherout's doing -- folk said she wasna weel -- She'll be vexing hersell about Steenie, the silly tawpie, as if he wad ever hae lookit ower his shouther at the like o'her!

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

I want to see what that hellicate quean Jenny Ritherout's doing -- folk said she wasna weel -- She'll be vexing hersell about Steenie, the silly tawpie, as if he wad ever hae lookit ower his shouther at the like o'her!

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801