crousely

Ye cootie moorcocks, crousely craw; [leg-plumed, confidently]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

And this is nae great matter, after a '; just to cut the comb of a young cock that has been crawing a little ower crousely.' '

The Black Dwarf 1898

` ` and that I am sair doubtful of; --- I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer, or messenger, speaking about it --- and things are ill aff when the like o them can speak crousely about ony gentleman's affairs.

The Antiquary 1845

And this is nae great matter, after a’; just to cut the comb of a young cock that has been crawing a little ower crousely.”

The Black Dwarf 2004

Peter; or maybe to ane of the great Sinclairs with their coats-of-mail, that the auld wife was cracking so crousely about? "

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Peter; or maybe to ane of the great Sinclairs with their coats-of-mail, that the auld wife was cracking so crousely about? "

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

And this is nae great matter, after a '; just to cut the comb of a young cock that has been crawing a little ower crousely. "

The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

"Unless he could find ten times as much," said the beggar, "and that I am sair doubtful of; -- I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer, or messenger, speaking about it -- and things are ill aff when the like o 'them can speak crousely about ony gentleman's affairs.

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Unless he could find ten times as much," said the beggar, "and that I am sair doubtful of; -- I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer, or messenger, speaking about it -- and things are ill aff when the like o 'them can speak crousely about ony gentleman's affairs.

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801