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Colony; thus, many a pretty girl in print dress and "cappie" joined the firelit circle.
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I'm gonna say EVAN just to be different. my real fave is cappie but i like evan too.
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The manakin's cappie being by this time again full, he began to walk off, but the miller gave him a whack with his stick, and then ran again to his hiding-place.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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The miller was so frightened that this time he let him go; but, in a few minutes, the manakin returned again with his cappie.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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After a time, he was surprised to see the hopper beginning to go, and, looking up, he saw a little manakin holding a little cappie in his hand and filling it at the hopper.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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and is it justme or is scott just great? i mean, he just is. his character, cappie is always making me smile when i see himon the show. but do you think that him and the guy that plays Beaver, Aaron hill, are as good a friends off set as they are on set? b/c scottdidnt metion him. huh..
TV Addict Interview: GREEK Star Scott Michael Foster | the TV addict 2008
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“I think ye hae been at the wee cappie this morning, for as early as it is — My gude name! — if ony body touched my gude name, I would neither fash counsel nor commissary — I wad be down amang them, like a jer-falcon amang a wheen wild-geese, and the best amang them that dared to say ony thing of
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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"I think ye hae been at the wee cappie this morning, for as early as it is -- My gude name!
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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Gammerstang commented on the word cappie
(noun) - A kind of beer between table-beer and ale, formerly drunk by the middling classes, which seems to have been thus denominated because it was customary to hand it round in a little cap. --John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
April 22, 2018